Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-21
DIDLOUIS USE PAINT?
zoLAo CHARGE THAT NAPOLEON
PAINTED HIS FACE.


Statement Contradictcd by Eminent Au-
thority-Did He Turn Green?
On the declaration Of war against
Prussia, both NM. dc Cassagnac and
Mitchell threw down their pens for tho
sword, and enrolled themselves rs vol
unteers 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
NJ. Emile lola in "La Debaclc' that
Napoleon Ill at Sedan had resorted 20 q |
cosmetic to impart unnatural rosiness to !
his complexion. NJ. Zola describes tho
emperor as having glowing checks, and !
adds, "Assuredly he had his face paint
ed" NJ. de Cassagnac has omphatically
stated that during his close association
with Napoleon before the battle no
never noticed O trace Of paint on tho
imperial countenancc. and IN this denial
he is corroboratod by NJ. Robert Mitch
ell. who declares his certainty that tho
then ruler Of the French people used no
pigment whatsoever during the opera.
tions leading to the capitalization OF
Sedan.
The question, although intrinsically
unimportant. is very curious, inasmuch
a. this Is not tho first time that the
change Of complexion OF the son VI
Queen Hortense has been made mat
ter Of public discussion. The anony-
nous writer Of that most entertaining
medley. "The Englishman In Paris
who first met Prince Louis Napoleon ut
the Hotel du Rim, Paris, in 1913, has
plenty to say about the personal appear
ance Of tho then pretender to the French
throne. Ho describes his heavy brown
mustache, his thin lank hair, his aqui-
line nose and grayish blue eyes and tho
general impression which the features
OF the prince gave him OF being ha-
bitual opium eater; and opium eaters arc
assuredly not as n rule persons OF rud-
dy tint. Provosingly enough tho Eng
lishman has nothing TO say touching the
princes complexion ut this stage of his
career.
The lato Mr.. Kinglake has. on the
other hand, great deal TO state touch
ing tho facial hue of the third Napoleon.
In his prologue TO the history of the
Crimean war tho writer describes tho
emperor as apt, on days OF great peril,
to turn facially green, and ON this cir
cumstanco no founded the opinion that
tho emperor, either Mt the period Of tho
coup d'etat or on subsequent occasions
"a inomentous, did not, 80 far us could
DO Judged from his appearance, suggest
the conclusion that he was n man Of cx-
ceptionnl courage. II is said. indeed.
that when Napoleon III read tho first
volume Of Mr.. Kinglako's history he
observed with n 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 the period did not scruplo 10
insinuate that Mr.. Kinglake's structures
on the personal appearance of the en-.
pcror woro due to tho inspiration Of m
Egeria well known in Partisan society,
who hated tho third emperor as bitterly
N tho first one had been detested by
Mme. De Stasl.
Tho authority, however, of the histo-
an highly valued in EnyIana that ths
.torv ~ Tho amn.ror ,urrin, groom ~,
dav. ~ ba,,le or rovolrtion oh,ojuod
universal crcdenco ana 40 somo o,ten,
1t was used to bolster up tho absurd nc
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LONG docaasod 20 Min, an, IN. ,ndulita
hlo WORTHY that non b.s mo conn.n,
ovor his Hood al,honeh NV ,he oye,cis,
~ his will be has every command ovo
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frarLiv aam,,,od that IN c,rcrms,orce
os onsrgoncv Tho fea,,,res of Nanoleo,
iii did assume n nccpliar bnc.
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nor ,v,s n aworthv or salIow. a was
crr;ors isadsn ,,roy I'm, ,h,, srcl,
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,;mory~no, hv ony moans a,cirsivol
,hat ~ NM do Ca.s,gnoc and Mitchell
os n.onia who had constnn,iv Moo
c,osa 10 ,he emnoror and ,ybo had ol
s.rvad b;s ,l,ysiroi ,,ian From, tbo o,y,
'-aaes NJ his career IN its monrnfrI ar
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