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zoLA's CHARGE THAT NAPOLEON
 PAINTED HIS FACE.

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 Statement ContradIoted by Eminent Au.
 thority-Did He Turn Green?
 On the declaration of war against Prussia, both NM de Cassagnac and Mitchell threw down their pens for the sword, and enrolled themselves as vol uuteers in the First zouaves Both were personally known to the Emperor Napoleon III, who saw them almost every day, and now these two distin. guished authorities have come forward to traverse the inference suggested by M Emile Zola in La Debacle" that Napoleon III at Sedan had resorted to a cosmetic to ilnpart unnatural rosiness to his complexion. M. Zola describes the emperor as having glowing cheeks, and adds, "Assuredly he had his face paint ed.' NJ. de Cassagnac has emphatieally stated that during his close association with Napoleon before the battle he never noticed trace of paint on the imperial countenance, and in this denial he Is corroborated by NJ. Robert Mitch ell, who declares his certainty that the then ruler of the French people used no pigment whatsoever during the opera tions leading to the equalization of Sedan.
 The question, although intrinsically unimportant, is very curious, inasnuch as this is not the first time that the change of complexion of the son of Queen Hortense has been made mat ter of pnblic discussion The anony- nous writer of that most entertaining medley, The Englishman in Paris,' who first met Prince Louis Napoleon at the Hotel dU Rhin, Paris, in ls4S, has plenty to say about the personal appear ance of the then pretender to the French throne He describes his heavy brown mostache, his thin lank hair, his aqui- line nose and grayish blue eyes and the general impression which the features of the prince gave him of being ha- bitual opium eater; and opium eaters are assuredly not as 8 rule persons of rud- dy tint. Provokiugly enough the Eng. lishmaR has nothing to say touching the princes complexion at this stage of his career.
 The late MT. Kinglake has. on the other hand, great deal to state touch ing the facial hue of the third Napoleon. In his prologue to the history of the Crimean war the writer describes the emperor as apt. on days of great peril, to turn facially green, and on this cir cuInstance he founded the opinion that the emperor, either at the period of the coup d'etat or on subsequent occasions as momentous, did not, so far as could be judged from his appearance, suggest the conclusion that he was u man of ex- ceptional courage. It is said, indeed, that when Napoleon III read the first volume of Mir. Kinglake's history he observed with a smile to one of his con fidants, This" pointing to the sea green passage, must have been written by a woman" and anti-English French jour nalists of tke period did not scruple to insinuate that MT. Kinglake's strictures on the personal appearance of the em- peror were due to the inspiration of an Egeria well known in Parisian society, who hated the third emperor as bitterly as the first one had been detested by Mme. De Stael.
 The authority, however, of the histo riau of the Crimean war was naturally so highly valued in England that the story of the emperor turning green on | days of battle or revolution obtained universal credence, and to some extent it was used to bolster up the absurd ac- cusatiou of personal cowardice which the ultra republicans constantly brought against their imperial foe. It remained for an illustrious English surgeon. not long deceased, to point out the indubita- ble yerity that man has no command over his blood. although by the exercise of his will he has every command over his muscles Meanwhile it must be frankly admitted that in circumstances of emergency the features of Napoleon LII did assuuae peculiar hue,
 l The cJlor was certainly not ruddy, nor was it swarthy or sallow; it was a curious leaden gray. But that such a isaden gray had nothing to do with the emperor's capacity for incurring danger without wayering there is on record first | the observation of the distinguished Eng | fish medical man to whom allusion has been made, and next to the personal tes- | timony-not by any means exclusively that of NM de Cassagnac and Mitchell --of people who had constantly been close to the emperor, and who had ob- served his physical mien from the early | stages of his career 10 it's mournful and inglolious close He was undoubtedly as brave as his uncle, the Great Napo- leon, who, by the way, was frequently accused in inc English press of being an 1 abject coward
 The harun scarum adventure of Stras. burg and the madcap escapade at Bou- logne showed that poltroonery was not among his shortcomings, and although Mir. Kinglake would have us believe Napoleon Ill turned green at Solferino and Magenta, there is plenty of evidence 1 from eye witnesses who were near to the emperor throughout those moment ous battles to show that whatever tint the face of the emperor took, it was cer- l tainly not d verdant one, As to Sedan ] there IS the Farther testimony of Princess Mathilde, who declares that she never told any one that the emperor was in the habit of using cosmetics. Since the appearance of M. Zola's statement she has questioned persons who were at the battle and they all assert that "the leg. end is absolutely false." The princess adds, "I cannot believe that, even with good intention, he could have em. ployed that actors trick under such l grave circumstances. ."-London Tele. i graph.
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