The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1895-06-08

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the commission was read, discussed, and
passed on, clause by clause. On the 9th of
March, 1903, the Code Civile DIES Francois
was completed and published. 1t consisted
of twenty-five hundrcd and eighty-one ar
ticles. These were arranged under three
heads: The Rights of Persons; the Laws
of Property and the Methods of acquiring
Property. In the code the elements of Ro-
man Law and the law-customs of the
French people were blended with singular
skill. Though in the political vicissitudcs
of France NAM notifications and not n
little patchwork were added thereto, the
code itself gained in the estimation of
mankind. 1t was disseminated by the I'M
perial conquests into the greater part of
Europe, and was adopted by one people
after another. The Code Napoleon be-
came the basis of Jurisprudence, not only
in France, but in Sicily, Holland, Bel
GUM, the Rhine provinces, Switzerland,
Poland, and in all the countries dominated
by the Latin races in Europe m America.
At the date of his coronation, Napoleon
was thirty-fiye years, three months and
seventeen days of age. He was in his
very prime. Physically, he had tri-
umphed over that attenuation and ut
ter swarthiness which had marked his
younger years. on Ills uTSU lSSUinCe 10
public notice, and down to the time of
the Consulate, he had worn a haggard
look which, added to his thinness and
his low stature, made him almost II spec
ter. In the year of his marriage, he was
described by an observant lady-as report
ed in Stendhal-as 1.-THE thinnes and
queerest being l ever met" In another
place the same authority says of him: He
was so scrawny that he inspired pity"
But with the qualification of his ambitions
and desires, he became plump and beauti-
full. He had at last recovered from the
cutaneous disease which he had contracted
from handling an infected hammer fallen
from the hands of n gunner at the batteries
before Toulon. 1t had required the long
and persistent services of the eminent Cor
visart to cure him of his malady,
OF all the descriptions of the person of
Bonaparte, that of Meneval, his secretary,
is doubtless the most correct and satisfy
ing. He says of the Emperor, that, though
mall of stature, his person was well knit
and symmetrical. The bust was longer
relatively thar the legs. The head was
large, and the skull finely developed. The
neck was short, and the shoulders proper
tionally broad. The chest was round and
full, indicating u robust constitution. The
AiiIlDsi DOiI III tlid ltSS, NCIC pGElCCU.
The Emperor was as proud as was Lord
Byron of his small plump hands and Ia
pering fingers. His forehead was broad
and high; his eyes easily kindled with
passion and flashed ~lightnings. His COM
plexion was pallid; bronzed at first; al
ways of the Italian hue. His dark hair be-
came hin on the top of his head, and the
height of the forehead was seemingly in
creased. Meneval, for thirteen years in.
innate with his misunderstanding closely
his every mood and feature-says: "His
head and bust were in no way inferior in
nobility and dignity to the most beautiful,
statue of antiquity"
Napoleon was capable of all the passions
He showed the inner fires. His anger was
easily aroused. He would storm and scowl
but there was always under the tempest &
self-control. The steel sinew:
of his relentless will held him back evel
from rashness of action. When he was an
gered or crossed, a sort of rotary muscular
maelstrom appeared in his forehead ant
between his brows, His nostrils would
dilate under his passion, and his fierce
gray eyes CLEAN hell. Afterwards hi
would be tranquil, smiling, i~nsinuating
gracious, caressing, Sometimes he would
break out in a hooking, sardonic laugh
a thing hollow and dangerous, echoine
through Europe.
The new Imperial system quickly diff
fused itself abroad. Wherever the influ
ence of France extended, the political
transformation was easily effected. Thu
Cisalpine Republic was converted into the
kingdom of Italy. This Napoleon wouli
make an appanage of his OWE. For foul
months, sixteen hours daily, he wrough,
at the establishment of the new regime in
France. He then sped to Milan, and or
the Goth of May, 1905, was crowned King
Of Italy. The ceremonial was in the great
cathedral there, second only in magnifi
cence to st. Peters. The old iron crown
of the Lombard kings was brought forth
from its dusty keep, and was given by tn.
archbishop of Milan to the Emperor, who
putting 1t on his head, uttered the famous
mot, Dieu me Ia donnee-Gare a qui Ia
touche. "God has given it to me-Beware
who touches titan aphorism which
became the motto of the Order of the Iron
Crown.
The Empire brought four years of con-
tinuous war Napoleon became the tram
pier OF vineyards. His armies made Eu-
rope into mire. England-agreeing at
Amiens not to fight-fought. Pitt, now
in the last year of his life, used all of his
to bring about a league against
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