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MADE THEM MARRY.
EMPEROR NAPOLEON WAS A mATRl-
MONlAL OESPOT.

xreeabIc Alliances Brought About by
This TyrannIcaI Matchmaker.
Among tho numerous works 10 which
the revival of the Napoleonic legend has
given birth i one called Napoleon and
the Ladies. - The writer exerts himself
20 the utmost TO transform the rough
soldier and despot into n hero of TO
nance, but without success. His rela-
ton with his two wives were not re
markable for either consideration or
delicacy, and he adopted n coarse pleas
Antry in his conversation with the ladies
Of his court which was not far removed
from downright vulgarity.
But what tended to make the very
name of Napoleon hateful To all young
Frenchwomen was his famous conscrip-
zion of girls, whom he married ofhand
20 his generals without the slightest
ceremony. The Marquise de Corgny, on
her return To Paris. was ordered to
marry her daughter TO Genera Sebas-
tiana. Both mother and daughter pro-
tested in vain. Three days after the
order the marriage took place at the
Tuileries, Napoleon himself giving away
the bride. Mile Adele de Ia Rochefou-
cauld was renowned throughout the
whole department for her grace, beauty
and expectations, when she was private
IL informed 10y the project that Napoleon
had decided 10 marry her TO Count AL
dobrandini. The lady objected to the
count for the best of feminine reasons
namely, that he was neither young nor
handsome.
The count, however, was the brother
Of Prince Borghese, the husband Of
Pauline, the sister of Bonaparte, and
the resistance of father and daughter
was of no moment, and they We're
obliged 10 yield TO the Will of Napoleon.
Count d'Arberg, the descendant of a
sovereign family, project of the Bouches
du Weser, and one of Napoleon cham
berlains, had two daughters OF mar
riageable age. Napoleon ordered that
one should marry General Klein, and
the other General Mouton, count de
Lobau- The mother of the two young
ladies was Countess Stolberg, sister Of
Countess Albany, widow of the last OF
the Stuarts. Fanny Dillon, the daughter
of Count Dillon. was ordered 10 I:iarry
General Bertrand. The young lady re-
-
that he was hideous, which unfOrtu-
rately happened TO be the truth. Ma
poleon was irritated at this conduct and
ordered the young lady TO be arrested
and confined in prison until she consent
ed TO marry Bertrand, the monster, rs
she called him
The Duc de Laureguais, father of the
Due 'Arenberg, colonel of a regiment
of cavalry and an unfortunate bachelor,
was ordered by Napoleon, under penalty
Of dismissal from the army, to marry
forthwith Mile. Stephanie Tascher de
Ia Pagerie, cousin german of the En-
press Josephine. The young lady as
well as the duke objected 10 the mar
riage, and the former had the audacity
TO declare that she not only hated the
duke but was over head and ears in
love with certain NJ. de Gentry. The
marriage between the cousin of jose
phine and the duke nevertheless took
place. and aJ the marriage ceremony,
when the young lady, in reply TO the
priests question, refused TO say yes
Napoleon himself deigned to push her
head downward in token of assent.
After the marriage ceremony this
strangely married couple went to reside
at the Hotel de Chimay. But the Ouch
ess refused TO receive her husband, who,
like reasonable being, posted after his
regiment, then serving in Spain. In
1911 he was made prisoner and sent TO
England, where he remained until the
fall of Napoleon in 1914. On his return
TO Paris the duchess obtained a dissolu-
ton of the marriage on the ground of
restraint, and she finished by marrying
the happy NJ de Gentry.
The Prince of Hohenzollern cousin Of
the king OF Prussia, was ordered to
marry Antoinette Murat, cousin Of
the Beau Sabreur" and king of Ma
piles, and although both the prince and
Antoinette declared that they mutually
hated one another the marriage never
theless took place, Napoleon being of the
opinion, like Mrs. NIalaprop, that mar
ried life had better commence with .
little hatred. One morning the Due dc
Croy was informed by his friend, the
project Of Mans, that Napoleon had re-
solved thst his daughter should be mar
ried ~ once 10 a general, and that an
order 10 that effect would be delivered
% the Due de CrOy on the following
day. But the duke was q man Of re
source, and there being III the house an
amiable cousin, one Fernand de CrOy,
marriage between the two cousins was
celebrated 81 midnight by the parish
priest When the formal order Of Ma
poleou arrived the next morning, the
duke replied that he was ''desolated, .
out that his daughter had already mar
ned her Cousin Fernand. But ii was not
safe 70 try 70 ourwit the powerful en-
peror, and few days afterward Cousin
Remand, the married man, was drafted
INTO a regiment Of cavalry and sent 10
Russia from which country he even
tuaIly returned, minus an arm
As late a. 1912 the Minister Of Police
oayery issued a circular 70 all the pre-
tects OF departments, ordering them 70
send 70 Paris a list of all the heiresses
} IN thelr respecriye der-arrrncnts with