New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-28
EMPRESS EUGENE.
HER VISIT TO PARIS-PLANS FOR LIVING
NEAR MONACO.


Paris, June IL.
was yesterday walking in the galleries OF the
Fine Arts Exposition in the Champs de Mars
with some French friends. one of whom was a
Bonapartst lie was next TO me and touched
my elbow as though to say Look here. did
look in the direction in which his eyes gazed and
saw three ladies with a gentleman beside them
and other ladies and gentlemen at some distance
as if walking after them The three foremost
ones were in the deepest mourning. One leaned
on two sticks At later hour saw her wheeled
in a bath-chalr. She had more than traces OF
most graceful figure. To judge from her appear
once and the bloodesSness of her face she might
have been seventy. Another of the ladies might
he described as a powerfully built old woman,
extremely stout and bearing herself with fine
and easy air. One she was parsonage, as
much because of her own personal qualities
as because born TO O high station The third was
young, fresh, of pleasant countenance, not par
ticuarly noticeable for an air of distinction. but
still had the look Of one used 10 q front place on
all occasions. She wore q faint pretence of
widows weeds and her mourning was richer than
if she had been Partisan cegante paying a
morning visit TO art exhibition The ladies
stopped before the paintings of Carolns Duran,
which seemed TO give most pleasure 70 the one
first described and the youngest of tie three
] then saw who they were. She who leaned on
the sticks was the Empress Eugene, the stout
old lady was the Princess Mathide, and the Young
est the Duchess of AOsta sister of Prince Victor
Napoleon, whom she has just been seeing at Brus-
sells and whom she is going TO visit again in
few days She will then run across 10 England,
should influenza not be raging. The Empress is
also kept here by the fear Of catching that malady
An the gentlemen who walked behind and lie
who took the three ladies round the gallery had
their hats Off My Bonapartist friend doifed his
lie was presently recognized by the Empress and
after she had spoken 10 him by the Princess
Mathde, who made few pungent remarks about
the character Of the exhibits. She called some
of them mere pochades, unfinished studies,
but pronounced them better than over-elaborated
paintings
The Empress is at the Hotel Continental. where
she occupies the rooms at the corner Of the Rae
de Rivoli and the Rue Cambon Of which the
Princess Clementine is often tie tenant She re-
ceives there in quiet way numerous visitors.
Her interest in politics is by 10 means dead she
being an ardent Victorian, ard being anxious to
see the codicil of the Prince mperial's will full
filed 10 the letter He was hostile to the revoln-
ton, and was a Clerical On the of his
departure from England for South Africa he made
a hologroph will After signing il an idea struck
him. II was to bequeath France to his cousin
Prince Victor who is now the sole NapoleOnc
prctender. The Duchess Of AOSta is devoted TO
him, and she is suspected Of being the bearer of
confidential messages to him from the King Of
ltaly-messages that must not be trusted TO
paper, and Of which no trace must be found In
the archives Of the Consulta. There is no love
lost between Iiumbert and the French Government.
lie has never been reconcicd to the cession to
France in 1880 of Savoy and Nice hates Repub-
lcansm and breads the possibility Of revolution
in Italy. He has been personally and ably at-
tackled by some French statesman who chooses
10 remain anonymous, in the pages of The Con- |
temporary Review in article headed THE |
House Of Savoy, the Pope and the Republic" and
is said 10 feel the attack so much as to have
urged Signor Crispi TO reply The ex-Prime Min |
lister of Italy has already sent article TO The
Contemporary | learn that he will contribute |
two others One will DC on Men,ana, at which |
the Chassepot rifles were first assayed Carl |
baldian troops. The other will he on The Com |
ing War" and | am told will lie remarkable for |
it's heat.
do not at all believe 1.-THE Republic is now on |
such firm basis that any pretender has q chance |
Of becoming king or emperor. But the Empress |
Eugene is not famous for sagacty, and the Duchess
oi Aosta is young, wanting in knowledge OF France |
nuNt diIfduy bdlu, utNOltu 10 ntT DrOblpr.
Among the visitors whom the eX-Empress has |
received since she went TO the Continental have |
been NJ, and Mime. de Lesseps and some Of their |
children. NJ. de Lesseps has long survived him. |
self. In an interview l had with him to-day |
found him almost voiceless, not from cold or in
fuenza, but the breakdown Of the nerves which |
control the vocal organs. Madame de Lessons
always was true 70 the BonapaTtes and often |
made pilgrimages 70 Chsehurst and marlborough |
But NJ. de Lesseps was more diplomatic I'm con.
ciliating the Republicans. The Empress and he |
shed tears when they met again. She was his |
felOw-labOrer in the Suez enterprise and cleared |
away diplomatic obstacles fast as Lord Palmer
stOn raised them.
Cape Saint Martin juts out into the Mediter
ranean between Mentone and Monaco and affords
ideal sites for residences. The ex-Empress of the
French was staying there when the census was
taken. paper was sent to her which she was
required TO fill In answer TO the printed ones
tons in contained she wrote; Comesse de Pierre
rond Marie Eugenie, aged sixtv-four: born in
Spain lGrenada, naturalized French: a widow.
had child, a son, who died In South Africa Is
q sOjourner lde passage; has five servants with
her lives habitually IN England"
The health of the Empress is far from satisfac-
tory. She s rheumatic, and there are doctors who
think that paralysis is stealing on her She has
arranged TO leave the bulk Of her fortune to the
children of her old enemy, the late Prince Napo-
leon. T. c.