The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-06-15
NAPOLEON BY IEFFVRE

thus construct a Gcrmanic wall between
Eastern Europe and France, protecting
the latter against the further incursion O
the A~ustro-Slavic races.
The next step was to convert Holland
into u sub-kingdom of France. On the 5tl
of june, 1906, Louis Bonaparte, to whom
four years previously, Hortense Beauhar
nais had been married, was proclaimed
king Of Holland. Out of Hesse-C assel,
brunswick and parts of Saxony and Prus.
STA, the Kingdom of W~estphalia was formed,
and assigned to Jerome Bonaparte as king.
To him-after Tilsit-was given in mar
riaSe the princess Catharine of Wurtem-
burg. In the countries between the Rhine
and Poland, extending southwark into
Italy and northward to the Baltic, a great
number Of dukcdoms and p~rincipalities
We're created and conferred on the mar
shals of the Empire. Murat, husband of
Caroline ,Bonaparte, was made grand duke
of Berg and Clevcs. Lanncs became luke
OF Monticello. juno was presently nomi-
mated duke of Ahrantcs. Bernadotte re-
ceived the title of prince of Pontecorvo.
Ney got his hard-carned dukedom of Ell
chingen. Berthier was made duke of Neu-
chatel and Ealangin. Soult became duke
Of Dalmatia, Masscna took his honor as
prince Of ESsling. Davout, after "a little
delay, was made duke Of Auerstadt. Bac-
ciocchi, husband Of Elise Bonaparte, was
created prince Of Lucca and Piombino.
Eugene B~eauharnai5 Yas given in mar
r1age Augusta Amelia, daughter of the
king Of Bavaria, and the title Of prince Of
Venice. Tho process of king making and
pr~!ncn-rnAEing was limited, not 50 much
by the Possibilities Of territory a. by the
nurnher " the Imperial retlnue.
Trg<4L. rrT tef.Fcn "a -ce.rc pf at,rrov
a2.aAf.on- The Inundated House of Ho-
hGnza..a"a .Dnkefl In this Gife9sti0n and IN
taat Ihs ygrEHar el.rneut u. the people
ana sAa p~a..n9Hfnlfa. L~4atr:Hta cried out
A2alGst taa Humiliation ~ France, Mran-
Ta4.h = $HranHe and far rezching contln.
RsaaT app$arsfi among the per)D0nt fDrces
In Eaypg@s Charts. James FOX, sucossesg,
III Pm, b<azams Minister ii Foreign Al
fairs, under the premiership If Granville.
Fox would fam have peace. He was no,
devoid Of remote syInpathieS with France
and with Napoleon himself. Courtesiet
began between him mt the Emperor.
In the early summer of 1906, the his.
torical conditions favored a general peace.
Both Fox and Napoleon sought it. The
Car would have been willing. Emperor
Francis could not interfere. But the es.
taolishment of peace involved the restora.
tion of Hanover to England. Tallcyrand
limited to the British ministry that this
might be done; but Frederick had received
Hanover as the price of his late neutrality.
To be stripped of it after the fact was to
leave him two things-shame and weak.
ness. Nevertheless, affairs went forward
f~avorably; and if If were a thing known
to history all might have been well.
Suddenly, however, oil the 18th of Sep,
TENDER, 1SO6, Fox died; and by the in
coming of Lauderdale, the whole complex
Ion was changed. Toryism again ran ram
pant. The Anglo Russo Prussian intrigue
was renewed. Frederick William sent a
peremptory challenge to Napoleon to be,
take himself out of Germany. The EN-
peror had in truth agreed to withdraw his
forces; but the Car had also agreed to re-
nhqulsh certain vantage ground on the
Dalmatlan fronticr-and had not lone it.
1heretore, Napoleon's army corps would
remain in Germany. Frederick William
suddenly declared war; and Napoleon, in
month after the death of Fox and the
sudden reyulsion in diplomacy, concentrat.
ed in Saxe-Weimar an army of nearly a
hundred thousand men.
The Prussians, sixty thousand strong.
under Prince Hohenlohe, occupied the city
OF jena, on the Saale. There, on the 14th
of October. they were attacked and utterly