The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-12

pie, and with the memories which her hus
band and son recall. 70 keep them alive
she has expended great deal of wealth,
and continues to spend great deal OF eff
fort Probably one milionot dollars would
not repay the outlay upon Eugenle's castle
and its surroundings, and they are com
manding part of the romance and reality of
the remarkable exhibition of past power
one sees as soon as dropped at the little
railway station thirty three miles form
London.
Looking from the left from Eugenie's
castle i'll the direction of Aldershot, can be
seen just across the railroad track d grove
of forest trees skirtlng the top of hill and
tending downwards toward an open field,
on the one side, and the main wagon road
on the other which leads from Marlborough
TO the military camp. On the brow of the
hill among these trees you see magnificent
building of white stone surmounted by
tower and pinnacled with dozens of smaller
shafts. The windows are large and filled
with richly stained glass and everything
indicates lavish outlay. Until you get To
1t and are admitted to its mysteries 1t looks
like q parish church in a rich community,
and so 1t is, but not in the sense OF belonging
TO the people. It is reared and kept in per-
feet order TO perpetuate the memory Of Ma
poleon LII, the Prince Imperial, and when
she goes TO her final account, the Empress
Eugene. Doubt ess quarter of a million
OF dollars did not pay for this costly monu
ment TO the fallen Imperial family of
France. The church upstairs is model of
beauty and everything that money could
procure has been done
IN THE WAY OF AFFAIRS,
tiling and decorations to make it as perfect
a chapel as the ingenuity of men could de-
wise. just in front of the altar of the Ma
DONNA and above and beyond the seats re
served for other worshipers, is set broad
armchair with prideduD in front for the
Empress TO kneel upon. The sembiance of
royalty is still kept up in the church as in
the castle, and her chair and its accompani-
ment are upholstered in royal purple, and
the frame work gilded according TO the I'm
perial habit.
Catholics are exceedingly scarce in Eng
land, and especially in this part of it.
Therefore, the Sunday congregation at the
mausoleum o Napoleon is small, and con
fined almost entirely to the attaches OF
Eugenie's household and very few hum
BILE residents along the highway who pro-
fess this faith. The church is kept up sim
ply to crafty the religious pendants of the
Empress and to keep prominent tile mem
DRY of her family, who are buried under
the altar OF the church. IN the sarcophagl
of marble presented by Queen Victoria.
The crypt where the TWO bodies are
deposited is model in its way, and again
illustrates the vast expenditure OF money
that must have been made i'll constructing
the building. IL is half the size of the
church above it and fitted up and finished
even more richly. The floor is covered
with elaborate thing, and in the centre be
tween four great stone columns carpet is
spread upon the marble, and upon this arc
about a score CT velvet covered pridedur oi-
rectly facing The altar. At the mead of the
two tombs which are on either side are
placed
THE ROYAL PURPLE COVERED CHAIRS
for the Empress, the counterpart of the one
above. On anniversary days marking the
death of husband aud son she has ceIemo
les held here. Tue day was there tue. {
must have been wagon load of wrC aths
and other flower pieces upon and about the
tombs of the two Bonapartes mostly sent
by French people which would seem to in
dictate that at least some OF her old subjects
keep the name green.
To the graves OF husband and son the
Empress is daily visitor when at home
| Sac has rather secluded walk built from
line castle to tue cript door, with d bridge
over the railroad which cuts her property
| in twain This permits her to walk from
| her hoEie unonserved 10 say her prayers for
the deau. TO administer to her spiritual
wants and say mass III the chapel the En-
press keeps six priests and four monAs OF
the regular BremonJre OF The congregation
OF France. The Sc white.robed canons live
IN a splendid brick house in the grove just
| beyond the church, having home that is
! fit Tor any, ones residence and large enough
TO well accommodate double the number
who occupy 1t. Both III architecture ard
environment it is beautiful building, d
very lit accompaniment to the magnificent
church which rises ABOVE the remains OF
the last OF The male line Of the imperial
family of France. Anything like perfect
description of the properly owned by tue
Empress is beyond the power OF words. Il
takes in so much that is beautiful IN nature
and so much that is striking in art, and
then surrounds them with so many strange
and mysterious conditions tnat one for d
time almest forgets they are in England
and inaglnes that
THE POWER OF THE BoNAPARTEs
has been restored and that they are begin
ming new reign in sunny France.
Is it not strange now easy it is TO give the
imagination It's bent and live upon its ca
prices! Here is a lady of high degree with
a history that comprehends almost all the
intrlgues and com binations that France has
known since 1888; the leader of social life
| IN the gdyeSL Capital III JuS WOrlu WHOSE
edict as to fashions was once regarded as
law in every civilized nation Of the globe
whose power not only with men but with
her own sex has no parallel, now after
twenty years of Punishment from the land
she once ruled is quietly living here in g
country wherein she never had a place OF
power and still maintaining all the Outward
evidences of her old time political domino
ton with every one about her to help keeE
up the fancy. In the little village the SHOP
keepers put up their wagons 'Purveyors tC
her Imperial Highness, The Empress Eu
genie.n Not only the gentry by the coun
tryslde, but the officers at Aldershot, the
statesmen of England who occasionally
drop down here make manifest their recog
milton of her title, just as though she were
in reality the Empress and yet by no means
known to law or revolution would it be pos
sible for her TO be restored to the throne Of
France No one knows that better thar
herself, but she finds it pleasant if not nee
essary to keep alive past glorles and live il
the same atmosphere she enjoyed before
her exile. Everywhere about her grounds
and in her castle there are interesting evi
dences Of her past: rich reminders of hel
royal home in France, which are carefully
preserved