Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-07-07

children; but they were by her precedent
lord. Eugene Denuharnais was capable,
but ho was not n Donapnrte. The decree Of
1907 naming Jerome as successor was not
satisfactory. II began TO be said that there
was state necessity that an heir be born
TO Napoleon himself Tho state necessity
was not effcctual with her who was nearly
forty The promises had one conclu-
sion only-dirorcc.
All tho world knows the story. The
Empress had both man and nature against
her As 10 tho Cursican, she had lived
with him for nearly fourteen years. She
knew too well tho futility OF resisting
him. 1t would seem that all expcdicnts
were useless. AT length the Empcrur's
mind was made up. He broke his purpose
10 Josephine as gently as might be, at
Malmaison. Tho divorce was arranged on
the 10Th and 10th OF December, 1909. The
Bonapartes had now full satisfaction. No
child OF Josephine should ever wear tho
diadcm Of France. Napoleon did as much
as he might TO alleviate her despair He
left her Malmaison, her tito OF Empress,
and q pension of two million francs. He
had loved her with fltful and tyrannical
fOndnoss. He had by no means been faith
full TO her; and many Islander Of the en-
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him,
After the fallen, Ty'hoiHg Would tho EN-
poror OF tho French, son of the mulberry
woman Of Ajnoelo choose nnothcr-as he
had chosen tho firstly nature and ma
lures law. Or would he calculator Would
he find In Vondeo or CotOs du Nord or
Lorraine some peasant girl, some Pucelle
Of Arc, mud make hnr--as he had made
himself-Imperlhl, and from her wait to
heo springing his possible Hons whclp so
povctod-and necessary Or would he,
hoping to pacify tho past, choose some
princess out OF tho House Of his friends
such friends IA Gustayus or Alexander or
Frederick William or lIranolsi
Tho politician prevailed over the man,
even in Napoleon. The splcndors OF dy-
nastic glory oblltornted tho plebclan In.
stinots OF his nature, The eagle Of Austcr.
litz dove into the thickct OF tho past, and
mated with Hapsburgl Maria Loulsn,
child Of our well-bcloved brother, the good
and faith keeping Francis, whose subjects
W. lntoly met on tho field OF Wagram do,
She blood frozen there is still bright rcd In
tho Iced Is our choice. By this way we
will confirm our Imperial House; and our
King OF Romo shall have royal mother.
We will love her by the political rulo-of.
threej and she shall love us, by tho calcu.
lus OF necessity
There was little delay, Maria Louisa
was appalled, at tho prospect-at tho first.
The woman In such cases Is hard 20 quench.
But Francis would have mn Emperor for a
son-in-law; and the daughter Of Franci,
nsscntcd. with swift prollmlnuries tn,
royal caynlcade, on the 18th OF March,
1910, swept out OF Vienna, bearing her e
her fate. On the LIST OF April, ut the ole
palace OF ST. Cloud shining splcndidiy fol
the occasion, the civil marriage was per
formed. The Pope refused TO approve tn,
divorce OF Josephine. Most Of tho eardi
mails, declining to bless tho marriage, wor,
stripped OF their scarlet rognlia and ban
ished from Paris.
In the Tulleries, Maria Louisa sough
at first to play tho part OF Impcrntrlc
with gaiety and goodwill. Tradition add
that Napoleon loved her. Certainly he sni,
so; and his future conduct In tho MARTA
relation WINS moro exemplary than before
There We're no more MADAME Foures
Countess Grnssinls, Madame 'st's Ste
phanies, Elocnoros Hortenscs, walewskns
or other beautiful Uncertainties on III
horizon. But tho vivacity and charm o
the conrt of Josephine mover returned
She At least had accomplishments.
Tho now Empress fulfilled her part wit
che npathotic smile OF Hapsburg. On III
night OF the 20th,of March, 1911, the III
tieth gun from the battery announced I
Pnfisa.tlptoe that tho Imperial programm
Ind been fulfilled TO tho letter; tho KIN
of Romo was borni Josephine, at Ma
MADISON, might almost have heard tho Al
tillcry and shouting. Would she hay
piuilcd II the firing had ceased with tn
foriy-ninth gum That would hn,o mean
'iduDhfcr
In May OF 1910 II could b. III
poicnn That he Ind had his Wa fci
Instances his prudlgious dream sd dts
patod sSto naughti but only Ia . loW. III
great scheme Of planting French clyillza
ton IN Northeastern Africa and OF carry
Ing thence the trlcolor to Damascus, Alcp
pc and Bagdad, Ind failed His project Q
making Consuntinoplo tho outpost o
Franco In tho East had vanishcd like ,
chifierr His hopo Of beating England OF
The sen ended with Trafalgar. But al
tho rest what was lefc unfullliod III,
dreamer and Laone',9A.s ars ~ slr -,