New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-14

ance might be possible He rather wsntony
wasted than economical provisions, when no
found that he would not be let out with his
army TO put down the Republic and set up
Regency, in which he hoped to be Regent, with
the Prince Imperial Of France the iigurchead
Eugene and Napoleon, dare say, put spokes in
his wheels, and then Bismarck saw that demo
cratic force was coming up and that RepubIc
alone could pay the war indemnity that ne
meant to ask 1t is clear that Bazaine sent
General Boyer to Versailles, when the King and
Crown Prince of Prussia made it their quar-
tcrs general to negotiate, at the latter stated IN
his diary political and military questions and
that Motke and Room held him in horror as
self-seelSing traitor.
Bazane after the war dcfed public opinion by
coming to live with his wife in snowy style
in the Champs Elysee She had the staggering
tastes of the Spanish American, and he was her
slave. Theirs reluctantly suffered him to be
prosecuted because the President had been in re-
laton with him toward the end of the Empire,
and only yielded to the general pressure of opin-
ion. The Marshals prison was villa In the
Avenue St Cloud gorandcd with Wistcria and
standing in fairly large grounds. General Sire
dc Riviere, WHO was charged 10 prosecute and
make the report, used often pending the trial. to
come to talk with me about the circumstances for
and against Bazaine and the probable agents by
means of whom he betrayed the Emperor to the
opposition and Metz to Prince Frederick Charles.
The Due dAumale, as Senior General Of Divi-
sion, was the presiding Judge at the court mar
tal AS there were wheels within wheels and
involvemcnts within inducements, Bazaine was
found guilty on every count and sentenced TO be
shot-a Judgment that I've minutes later was
committed to perpetual imprisonment In n fort
ress, with secret understanding that the con-
Wet was to be allowed to escape The old Cas-
tie of the Isle St Marguerite, in the beautiful
bay Of Cannes, with its facilities for exit when
there was a conniving governor, was the jail
chosen by the Moral Order Government for
the man Of Metz.
When Bazaine escaped he and his wife went to
Spain and were well received by the Court cir
Gle there The disgraced Marshal was personal
friend of Queen Isabella, for whose crown. when
she a child, he fought against Carlos In
volunteering to for a short time under
Christina, he joined q Foreign Legion, got up
by Louis Philippe 10 counterfeit the one headed
by Sir de Lacy Evans and for five years showed
himself forward. active and INSCRIPTIONS SOL
der Of fortune, at the end Of which time he
re-entered the French ormy and sent to AL
gers There he was under the Due d'Aumale
when the Revolution of 1S4s obliged that Prince
to retire to England.
The Bazanes lived in staggering style until
they had got through their fortune. They used
to give dinners and balls, and had box at
the opera where the Marshal used to take his
post-prandial sleep while the Marechale frted
with circle of Dons and ScDors. Then they
went TO a cheaper house, and saw less COM
pany, and so on from low TO lower, until Nine
Bazaine thought il her duty TO so TO Mexico and
try to interest rich relatives in her favor and
get back the unsold sLreds of her coniscated
estates Her husband finally descended to a
wretched tenement-house fat He wrote to old
friends for small loans of money, carried home
his own marketing, and grew equity. and
senile and irritable as King Lear. he used TO
abuse the Prussians call the French army
herd of swine, and threaten TO make clean
breast in memoirs and "reminiscences which would
put to the blush end of grand folks. Then
exhausted with his futile anger no would fall
back into chair and 60 to sleep The attempt
made last year to assassinate him was mercy
in disguise. 1t moved old chums to help him
and Queen Isabella to send him a handsome
present. Bazainc's latter day life was ignoble
and paltry. Death in his case WAS delverer
Another spurious relic Of the First Empire
will be soon again in the market-the so-caIled
campbell of Napoleon-now at the Castle of
Muzon, in the Department of Indre That beauti-
full old seat contains library of / 0, 600 volumes
of richly bound and rare books collected by
NJ Denis Dufrasne who died short tune ago.
and much furniture Of the kind that puts weak
minded Americans out of their senses. The
" campbell was bought at the auc on of Gen
eral Bertrand, who, with his wife and children,
shared the captivity of Napoleon. II was one of
three exact copies of the couch used by the French
Caesar in his campaigns. The real bed was sold
to Bonaparte fanatic at ChateauIoux, who still
owns it &c