Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-14

question, refused to say yes, Napoleor
himself deigned to push her head down
wards in token of assent. After, the
marriage ceremony this strangely-mar,
ried couple went to reside at the Hotel
de Chimay. But the duchess refused tC
receive her husband, who, like rea-
sonable being, posted after his reBi;
nsent, then serving in Spsin In 1911
lae was made prisoner and sent to En-.
gland, where he remained until the fail
of Napoleon in 1914. On his return to
Paris the duchess obtained dissoEu-
ton OF the marriage, on the ground Of
constsaint, and she finished by marry
ing tie happy NJ. de Gentv. The
prince. Of Hohenzollern, cousin, of the
king OF Prussia, was ordered to marry
Antoinette Murat, a cousin of the. Beau
Sabreur" and king of Naples. and
although both the prince and Antoiaette
declared chat they mutually hated one
another, the marriage nevertheless took
Place, Napoleon being of the opinion,
like Mrs. Malaprop, that married life had
better commence with. a little hatred.
Ono morning the Due de Croy was in
formed by his friend, the project OF
Mans, that Napoleon had resolved that
his daughter should be married at once
to generals, and that an order to that
effect would be delivered to the Due de
duke was a man of recourse, and there
being ia the house an amiable cousin,
one Fernand de Croy, a marriage be-
tween the two cousins was celebrated
by the parish priest. When the formal
order of Napoleon arrived the next
morning, the duke replied that he was
''desolatecf," but that his daughter had
already married her cousin Fernand.
But it was not safe to try to outwit the
outrageous emperor, and few days
afterward Fernand, the married man,
was drafted into a regiment of
cavalry and sent to Russia, from
which country he eventually re-
turned, minus an arm. As late as 1912,
the Minister of Police Savary issued
circular to all the projects of depart
ments, ordering them to send to Paris
list of all the heiresses in their re-
speetIve departments, with full par
ticuIars as to age, personal charms,
and amount of property, either in pos
session or in expectation. These lists
were sent to the emperor, who divided
his time impartialIy between their pc
rusa1 and the monthly returns of the
positions of his regiments and their
presumed equipments. In fact the
emperor, whether from policy or freak,
or from both, was an inveterate match
MAKER and never troubled himself
about the Conscientious scruples' of
either the ladies or gentlemen con-
cerned. Mile. SoAand-So was ordered
to marry Gem So-and-So, and vice
versa, and the emperor expected
to be obeyed by the more or
less happy couples, as he ex-
pected his regiments to obey him
on the battlefield. The endeavor to
make rough-and-ready soldier, like
a hero of romance, is a de-
cided failure-but the very attempt to
do so shows to what extent the modern
revival of the Napoleonic legend is car
ried. The best that can be said for
Napoleon in his character of match
maker is that he sought to fuse the
new nobility of his own creation with
the old French titled families, and in
this way to revive and strengthen the
noble caste, which the French revolu-
ton had partially succeeded in de-
stroying. In this respect, as in many
others, the genius of Napoleon was di-
rected toward the revival of the old
regime in a more despotic form than
during the reigns of Louis XIV. and
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