The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-01

4enanced and he was glad Co get away
being careful to carry with him a military
record which he himself had prepared and
xhe colonel of the Second Battalion had
signed, showing his patriotic military serv-
does and his rank as an officer. With this
he would regain his lost position in the
french army.
At Valence, there was still much in
Napoleon's favor. The royal army was
literally going TO pieces. The organiza-
tion of tho National Guard in various
parts Of tho kingdom had drawn off many
Of the officers and infected many more
with the disease of patriotism. The colo
mel OF the Fourth Regiment was an old roy
Mist who had gladly cut off the Jacobin
Bonaparte from his command. 1t was use-
less for tho latter TO return to Valence,
hoping to be reinstated at such a court.
Ho therefore made all speed for Paris,
where he would have a hearing before the
minister of war
By the summer OF 1893 tho roaring
winds of revolution were shaking not only
the pinnacles, but tho very foundations,
of French civilization. The old order was
already in ruins. Paris was I'm an uproar.
The King and court had been Obliged in
the preceding autumn To leave Versailles
and come, in the most remarkable process
sion Of history, to Paris. Tho starving
populace had gone out to tho royal palace
Invaded II, hooted around IL, drawn forth
the King and Queen and their i'll fated
scion, and had hurried them of into tho
city, dancing about them~en route and
shouting i'm wild jocularity that now they
had tho baker and the bakeress and tho
Bakers little boy All this wreck of roy
atty and nobility heaped itself up in the
Tuiieries, out of which the ancient mon
archy of ths Bourbons looked with wan
face at the weltering world. The Nation
al Convention went on and on, demolish-
ing and reforming, destroying and re-
zorselessly casting out the old institutions
Of France, and In lieu thereof making n
new Constitution out of philosophy and
paperl
1t was to this Paris that Napoleon
came with billet OF dismissal and u pc
fition for reinstatement. One war minis
Ter after another, 90 the number OF six,
had now filled the important Office before
which Bonaparte stood petitioner for re-
hearing. The new minister was Ma
sionalist and favorably disposed towards
the Corsican adyenturer; for the latter
came with haRgard revolutionary face
and long hair hanging 10 his shoulders
There was delay in the Office; and Bona
parte with his former schoolfellow and
future secretary, Bourrienne was well
nigh starving in the streets
To add 20 his distress, the Royal School
for Girls at Saint Cyr, under the immediate
patronage of Marie Antoinctte, went Co
pieces, like othcr existing things; and
elise Bonaparto was turned adrift with no
friend in France except her sullen brother
TO the credit of the latter, he clung to his
sister, and presently took advantage of
her presence 60 get another IedUe of db-
Sence, "in order 60 conduct her home"
But he did not do so until his cause i'm tho
war Office had, on the Both OF August,
lbeon decided in his favor. lie was exon
Grated, restored 20 rank, promoted 20 a
captaincy, and TO crown all the new COM
mission was dated back to the preceding
February.
This was great victory for tho man of
destiny. Howas Captain Bonaparte. TAX
ing Elise by tho hand, he sped away 20
Lyons and Falence-whero he paused to
De seen I'm his new regimcntals-and then
20 Marseilles and Corsica. His return
brought together at Ajaccio all the NOM
bcrs Of the family OF Bonaparto He left
hohind In Paris the Countess Josephine de
Beauharnais, aged twenty-nine. And yon-
nine months old, lies the girl-babe Maria
Louise. These two shall have relations
with history in the next two docndesi AS
for King Louis, he goes down the sleeps,
with ever accelerated pace, from the Tenn
pie prison 10 the guillotine.
France had now become an ocoan OF
molten brass, scething, bubbling, break
ing along the billows into flames Of lurid
light. The Revolution was coming 90 its
crisis Hunger and despair IN the hearts
Of men had done their perfect work. War
was on with Prussia and Austria and
England. The emigrant nobility acIoss
tho borders was in league with the enc
fnios Of tho French nation. That nation
had sprung up. an infuriated tigrcss and
woe lle hcnceforth % tratorsl There was
intrigue bstweer the dying court and tho
Eniigses bo5one TIC Rhine. 10 was neu
ar nevrr Tho Terror came on; chntcaus
were flaming The streets were slippoiy
will rcd. che axe went always up and