Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-01-17
NAPoLEoN.s SCHEMES.
Determined to Use the Political Crisis fe
the Benefit of His Family.

Determined to Use the Political Crisis for
the Benefit of His Family.
During the summer of 1857 Napoleon
was at Ajaccio on a leave of absence.
But disquieting news about the move
ments of the authors regiment began
TO arrive. They really concerned him
little, but, using them as an excuse
for his own ends, and without await
ing the ends of his leave, he made
ready at once to start. He reached
Paris in October, a fortnight before he
was due, to find his regiment near St.
Denis, on its way to the west, where
incipient tumults were presaging the
coming storm. The estates-general
of France were about to meet for the
first time in one hundred and seventy
five years; they had last met in 1914.
and had broken up in disorder. They
were now called as the last remedy,
not understood, but at least untried,
for ever-increasing embarrassments;
and the government, fearing still
greater disorders, was making ready
to repress any that may break out in
districts known to be specially disaf-
fected.
All this was of secondary Importance
to Bonaparte: he had scheme to use
the crisis for the benefit of his family.
Compelled by their utter restitution at
the time of his fathers death, he had
temporarily and for one occasion as
sumed his fathers role of suppliant.
Now for second time he sent in Pc
tition. It was written in Paris and ad-
dressed, in his mothers behalf, to the
resident intendent for Corsica. Though
supplication in form. it is unlike his
fathers humble and almost cring-
ing papers, being rather a demand
than a request; it is unlike them in an
other respect, in that it contains
falsehood. or, at least, an utterly mis-
leading half-truth; statement that
he had shortened his leave for his
mothers urgent necessities. The pa
per was not handed in until after the
expiration of his leave, and his true
object was not to rejoin his regiment,
as was limited in it, but to secure q Sec
ond extension of leave. Such was the
slackness of discipline that he spent all
of November and the first half of De-
cember in Paris, remaining there, that
is, until he actually succeeded in pro-
curing permission to spend the next
six months in Corsica.
He was quite as disingenuous in his
request to the minister of war as in his
memorial to his intendent for Corsica,
representing that the estates of Cor
sica We're about to meet, and that his
| presence was essential to safeguard i'm
| portant interests which in his absence
would be seriously compromised.
Whatever such plea may have meant,
| his serious cares as the real head of the
| family were ever uppermost, and never
| neglected. Louis had, as was feared,
lost his appointment, and though not
| past the legal age, was really too old
| to await another vacancy; Lucien was
| determined to leave Brienne whether
| or no, and to await at AK for the first
| chance which might arise of entering
the seminary.
Napoleon made some PROFESSIONALISM
| it was is not known-for Lnuis's fur
ther temporary stay at Brienne, and
then took Lucien with him as far as
their route lay together. He reached
his home again at the Christina:
season.-Prof. Sloane, in Century.