Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-08
NAPOLEON BY LEFEVRE

prOteCtUrato. Napoleon would thus con- struCt Gcrmanic wall between Eastern Europe and France protecting the lat ter against the further incursion of the Austru-Slavic races.
 Tho next stCpwas to convert Holland into a suh-kingdom of France On the 9th of June, 1906, Louis Bonaparte, to whom, four years previously, Hortense Beauharnais had been married, was proclaimed king of Holland Out of He>se- C asset, Brunswick and parts of Saxony and Prussia, the kingdom of Westphalia was formed, and assigned to Jerome Bonaparto as king. To him after Tilsit-waS given i'll marriage the princess Catherine of Wurtemburg. In tho countries between the Rhine and Poland, extending southward into Italy and northward to the Baltic, a great number of dukedOms and principalities were created and conferred on the mar ShalS of the Empire. Murat, husband of Caroline BOnaparte, was made grand duko of Berg and Gloves. Lannes be- came dul' of Muutebello. Junot was presently nuuiuatVd duke of AbrantCS. Brrnadutt" received the title of prince of POntrcuryu. Ny got his hard earned dukelom of Elchingen. Berthicr was made duke of Neuchatel and Nalangin. ! Soult became duke of Dalmatia Mas ] srna took his honor as prince of Essling. ! Davout, after q little delay, was made | duke of AutEstadt. Bacciocchi, husband ! of Elise Bunaparte, was created prince ! of Lucca and Piombino. Eugene Beau 1 harnais was given in marriage Augusta | Amelia, daughter of the king of Bavaria, and the title of prince of Venice. The | process of king making and prince mak ing was limited. not so much by the | possibilities of territory as by the num- Der of the Imperial retinae.
 Prussia now became a scene of stormy agitation. The humiliated House of Hohpnzullern looked in this direction l and i'll that. The younger element of the people and the philosophical patriots cried ont against the domination of France. Meanwhile, a strange and far reaching contingency appeared among the personal forces in Europe. Charles James Fox, successor of Pitt, became Minister of Foreign Affairs, under the premiership of Grenville. Fox would fain have peace, He was not devoid of remote sympathies with Franco and with Napoleon himself. Courtesies began be tween him and the Emperor
 Suddenly. however. on tho 18th ot September, 1906, Fox died; and by tho incoming of Lauderdalo. the whole com plexion was changed Toryism agair ran rampant Tho Anglo Russo Prus sian intrigue was renewed. Fredericl William sent a peremptory challenge to Napoleon to betake himself out O
 Germany. The Emperor had in trutl agreed to withdraw his forces; but tn, Czar had also agreed to relinquish cer tain vantage ground on the Dalmatial frontier-and had not done 1t. There fore. Napoleon's army corps would re main in Germany. Frederick William suddenly declared war; and Napoleon
 in a month after the death of Fox anC the sudden revulsion in diplomacy, con centrated in Saxe- Weimar an army O nearly a hundred thousand men.
 The Prussians, sixty thousand strong
 under Prince Hohenlohe, occupied tn
 city of Jena. on the Saale. There, ol
 the 14th of October, they were attacke'
 and utterly routed by the French, leav ! ing behind twelve thousand in kille
 and wounded, and about fifteen thou
 sand prisoners. On the same day, a
 Auerstadt, fourteen miles from Wei
 mar, a corps of the Grand Army, thirty
 five thousand strong, under Marsha