The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-21
PRINCE ROLAND.
Grand Nephew of Napoleon Now in
the City.
A Grandson of Lucien Bonaparte, Who
Pursuits-Personnel of His Suite.


of Lucien Bonaparte, brother of Napolean
|, is the illustrious guest of the Knuts-
ford.
The prince is accompanied by M. de
Pierefeu, an ex-officer of the French
navy; M. Leandri, private secretary of
the prince; D. Topinard, officer of the
Legion of Honor, and professor of the
University of Paris, and M. Bonnaud,
representative of La France and other
Partisan journals.
The prince and the party arrived in the
city before noon and they at once set out
to take in the town on foot. The prince
| is tall and swarthy and he doomed up
head and shoulders above his companions,
his fine figure at once stamping him as the
real Napolean, every inch prince. His
dress was of rough and ready kind, his
shirt being made of soft flannel goods,
with roll-down collar, of negligee pat
tern. In the tramp to the tabernacle and
up to Fort Douglas the prince led off with
famous stride which KEEP the short legs
of M. Bonnaud on the quickstep.
The Prince said that Fort Douglas was
a very interesting place, and he was es-
pecially attracted by the Indian soldiers,
so much SO that he will give them mem
ton in book for which he is now gath
ering data that is to deal with the an
thropology OF the Cliff DwelIers, Pueblos
ana other ancient American races.
The prince is very studious in his habits
and he cares nothing for outdoor sports,
his entire time being devoted to his
hobby, study OF primitive races.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE PRINCE.
"Prince Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, a
grand nephew in direct line of the En-
peror Napoleon |, deserves to be enthus-
iastically received in the country of
Washington for which he has always
the La DeteSen. On account of that SYM
pathy of which the prince has given nu-
merous proofs of his works, on account
of his high situation in the intellectual
elite of France, and of his illustrious
name, it ls, we repeat 1t, an honor for the
United States to receive the visit OF such
an eminent parsonage.
physically the prince is q very hand
some man of the pure Latin type, with a
dark mustache, dark hair and rather
pale complexion. Two charming eyes,
the brightness of which is still softened
by an eyeglass, temperate the somewhat
martial expression of his cOuntenance.
The prince has the legendary appearance
of the Bonapartes, enhanced by high
stature lover six feet). His profile is that
of Napoleon's brother, his grandfather
Prince Lucien, who was, every one
knows, president of the "Conseil des
Cind Cents'' on the is brumaire.
'iIhe career of Prince Roland Napoleon
Bonaparte honors him greatly, moreover
as the vicissitudes of politics and the
hardships of life made it painful at times.
"Grandson, as we said, of Lucien
Bonaparte. the prince was born in Paris
on the 10Th of May, 1858. He spent his
childhood, after the grave events of 1870,
partly in Belgium and partly in England,
then he came back to Paris, and after
three years of very successful studies at the
Lycee Saint LOUIS, he took part in the
concourse for admission to the special
military school of Saint Cyr, and was adj
mitted after q most flattering result.
Leaving the special military school,
the twenty third In 400 competitors, the
prince was promoted sub-lieutenant
in the Thlrtysixth regiment of
infantry. 1t was for him the most prom
Using career possible. The generals under
whom he was serving, already recognized
in him an officer OF an exceptional merit,
uniting the perfected instruction of an ex-
perienced officer with the elevation of
conceptions which he partly inherited,
without doubt, from his greatuncle.
Unhappily an exceptional law applied to
the members of families having ruled in
France and interdicting all military en-
ployment to them, interrupted the career
of the young lieutenant in 1888.
Ellis anthropological works which have
attracted the attention of all the cultivated
minds and OF the great scientists, include
twenty three volumes.
'The prince makes the most noble use
of his fortune, and spends the greatest
part of 1t for the study of all the great
Scientific questions. People has not for
gotten the part he has taken in the con-
strnctiop of the observatory of Mount
Blanc, in the construction of boats in
tended for explorations of marine zoology,
IN the foundation of the Vignemale OBJ
servatory, the highest of the Pyrenees,
and the vast inquiries which ended in the
demonstration of the laws of Bruchner
and took place on a whole series of
glaciers.''