The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-22
NAPOLEON AND WOMEN.
The Emperor Preferred Military Glory
to the Smiles of WOmanI<ind.
Henry Haynie, in Chicago Herald.


The Bonaparte family have been getting
themselves talked about again, thanks
to book just published. and to the re-
t tSe' name ueen of Of Peterson The book is en-
titled "Nauoleon and the Women" and its
author is M Mason. Napoleon 1 could
ever lived if he liked. as he had all the
qualities to captivate womankind. He not
only had the prestige Of a generals uni
form, that was covered with decorations,
may not always be necessary, but 1t helps
a great deal when 1t comes to pleasing
ladies, and the Emperor was lucky in not
living to that old age at which a man,
however great he may be. Is doubtful
whether he is loved for himself or not On
the eve of Waterloo he was neither blase
nor weakened in his mankind, and when he
'let go of the world" Victor Hugo puts
it, wrinkles had not yet furrowed his regu-
lar Caesarian features. for he was but
forty-six years old. A conqueror man Of
strength and genius, having in himself all
things combined which would cause young
girls to dream or trouble the repose of
such married women as were not ''piously
faithful to austere duty" you would natur-
ally suppose that from that day in 1913,
forehead at Toulon, until the moment
when he went board the Bellerophon,
that Is to say, for nearly quarter of
century, Napoleon was often tempted but
he seldom was. The truth Is, few men
were ever less loved by women than was
Napoleon Bonaparte.
heroines appear intriguantes or inter-
ested adventuresses, nearly all sold them
selves for money or to secure q position for
an obliging husband. There was only one
among the whole number who thought 1t
her duty to follow Napoleon into exile, but
even she did not give herself UP to him for
feeling, she sacrificed herself she was
thrown into the arms or Napoleon by a
crushed nation which wished IS to live again.
able of raising the stone from off it's tomb.
This strange and poetical figure should not
really De spoken e 81 as one OF poa t b
she gave herself, 1T was to her country,
Poland.
loved by neither of them. Josephine often
wept at having found herself deceived but
spite alone drew forth her tears, for 1t was
for ambition only that she married the
young general returning in glory from the
Italian campaign. Only a few months after
the wedding she refused to join him at the
front to share, If not his perils, at least his
preoccupations and his troubles chief of
the army. She remained in Paris, where her
conduct was scandalous, pretended illness in
leave it was to lead an irregular life at
respectable distance from the army, with
young officer who had neither the prestige
of birth. nor that of glory, and whose sole
merit consisted in making puns. puns-
ter was the man whom a woman that the
master Of the. world most ardently adored,
eloquent tenderness, preferred above all
others.
AS for Marie Louise, she loved a one
eyed fellow of a ripe old age better than she
did her illustrious husband, and this, too.
no to the moment when Napoleon was most
unhappy. She must have forgotten those
thousand and one kind attentions with
which he surrounded her at the Tuiler-
les. attentions so delicate so respectful, SO
tinnid that three months after her marriage
she wrote: ~ am no longer afraid of Ma
poleon but / begin TO believe that he is
afraid of me-" In 1914. this husband had
been conquered and abandoned, and was
one to be consoled. Very often the heart
will bring back to a man equally unfortu-
nate a married woman who has not been
oyersatisfied with her husband but Marie
Louise had no such feeling, or If she did
have Count Neypperg quickly repressed IT.
While his last surviving brother, the ami
able Jerome who deserted one wife, Eliza
beth Patterson, of Baltimore, to find in
Catherine of Wurtemburg a devoted wife.
a woman anxious TO partake his i'll fortune,
NAPOLEON waited vainly for Marie Louise at
Flha Nor did the plaintive Josephine quit
MaImaison where, long after the divorce,
she called herself the inconsolable lover OF
this great man to ever go and console him.
either on the island of Elba or at Sainte
Helena :,
Perhaps Josephine, Marie Louise and all
| ,ba otherss have excuse for loving him so
| little a man is favorite with women
when he occupies himself with them sim
| cerely. or as an actor playing In the comedy
| ~ love Napoleon Bonaparte had greater
! things TO think OF than counting. and
| women were TO him but so many acces-
series The magnet of his destiny attracted
] him Tar more than did the conJugal dreside