The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-31
THE son OF NAPOLEON.
An Extraordinary Romance in Which
History is interviewer.

al French officer.
From the New York Herald.
ri are died at Pontoise, France, on
Apil Is, 1881, an old man whose birth
M responsible for the downfall of an
,ira and who himself, when arrived
- mature wears, attempted to assassi-
az ofteryard successful aspirant for
irIar;al honors The tale is tangled
81 Of love. ambition, hate and intrigue.
Ticonnected form it is also new to his
try.
stg to be hailed by the French as the
kreatest conqueror of the ages, his cup OF
Slorv held a drop of bitterness. There
was no son to succeed him on the throne
he had won with the sword.
uAlasl that we are childless," he
sighed. one day. But l am not" re-
torted Josephine spiritedly. This allu-
sion IN Eugene and Hortense Beauharnais
carried with it a wealth of defense and
sIgoestion on the part of the empress. IT
rad been made before, not once, but many
times and to its yelled taunt were largely
Sns the numberless intrigues undertaken
with loveless persistency by the master
of France.
Not long dIIer-bOWdTu DnC C1OSC VI
January. iS06-the emperor visited the
PRINCESS Caroline Murat, and among her
attendants took particular notice of a
pjrl still in her teens, who had large,
black ewes. wealth of midnight hair,
beautiful features, and in form the statu-
eseue perfection Of goddess. Her name
was Nine Revel. Less than year be-
fore she had married. Ere the honey
moon closed. charges of forgery were
or 6af htrC hand He in
iail awaiting trial; she was under the
nrotection of the Princess Caroline.
Napoleon changed all this. Revel was
promptly convicted and sentenced to two
years Imprisonment. On Feb. ID, 1906,
his wife asked for divorce, and the de-
cree was granted on April 20 OF the same
wear. On Dec. 10, 1906 a child was born
to the Young woman, at No. % Rue de la
Victoire, Paris, who is described in the
official register as Leon, son of Mile.
Eleonore Denuel, RENTER, aged 20 years,
and of an absent father"
On Dec. 81 the news reached Napoleon
at Pultusk, and then it was that he re-
solved to divorce Josephine as prelimi-
nary to union with some consort who
might present him with an heir to his
power and dominion. How this determi-
nation was carried out and how disas-
trously it resulted are among the best
known facts of history.
The record of Leon's mother is the rec
ord of a girl brought up to regard her
beauty as a salable commodity, mar
riage certificate being preferred incl
dental but not an absolute necessity. She
was born Sept. 10, 1887, and christened
Louise Catherine Eleonore Denuelle de la
Plaigne Her mother was beauty and
the father had some wealth. Neither
possessed scruples.
The family lived in the Boulevard des
Italiens and entertained a great deal,
AS their fortune dwindled the parents
saw their daughter grow in physical
grace, and they resolved that she must
make wealthy marriage. So EleOnore
was trained in much knowledge generally
forbidden to modest demoiselles, and
learned to subordinate all sentiment or in
discreet desires TO practical husband
hunting
But the fairy prince failed to show him
self at the Denuelle salon, or, if he did,
was frightened away by mama's ELUSIVE
ness and papa's attempts to effect loan.
Poverty crept closer and assumed more
disagreeable aspect. Something desper-
ate must be done, and Nine. Denuelle
decided to exhibit her private rosebud at
the theater. So night after night the
two visited the playhouses, while Mosieur
waited outside to escort them home, the
state of the family exchequer not per-
i
was also reasoned that the presence of a
man in the party might act as deter
ment on the advances of the gallants of
the first empire
One evening an officer in uniform CLAN
ced at the two ladies. He was attracted
by the fresh loneliness in the younger. and
admired respectfully the mature beauty
OF the elder. His homage did not appear
TO offend and he ventured to speak. Thus
the acquaintance began. He called at the
mansion in the boulevard des Itallens,
and endured with singular patience and
courtesy the attempts of papa Denuelle
TO deplete his purse To the ladies he
hlnted at love and they suggested marri-
age
So it came about that at ST. German.
on Jan. 10, 1905, Eleonore was taken to
wife by Jean Honore Francois Revel.
captain in the Fifteenth regiment of
Dragons, detailed on the staff of Gen.
o'Arange d'Haugeranville.
A ooNscIENoELEss ROGUE.
Now Capt. Revel was a rogue
The first thing he did after the we'd
olng was to resign his commission, giving
as reason that he had secured q contract
70 furnish supplies to the army. His real
oDlect soon became apparent. He wanted
10 devote his whole time to per-
iectlpg his wife in the arts of
S-oAC DldChudller. he mad married her
because he thought her beauty would be-
come his key to the strong boxes of
wealthy debauchers. Like Papa and
Mamma Denuelle, he had no scruples. and
as for the girl-wife-well, who can blame
one trained as she had been from child
hood
Inc scheme collapsed in March by rea-
son OF the discovery that Capt. Revel.
whale IN the army, had forged pay war
rants: They locked him up and Princess
caroline took pity on the beautiful grass
EWIu2W, with the results already chron-
After the birth of Leon the mother and
Gnlld resided in the Rue de Province, at the
HoIel du Gouvernement, which belonged
W Frlnce Murat, and which is now known
as the Hotel Thelusson In 1907 Napo-
icon severed his connection with Eleon-
ore and issued orders that henceforward
Sne should not be admitted at Fontaine-
pleau. he gave her the house where
Le1n was born, and Feb. 4, 1903, settled
On Her an income of %, 900 lives, so tied up
herself
IN mat date Eleonore was married to
M AZ. Fierre Philippe Angler, lieutenant
" iuidnJry and a son of member of the
legislative corps. Angler sent his wife to
1tpain, was captured while on the march
70 MOSCOW and died prisoner in the
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