Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-22

al not rtfcctual with her who was nearly forty seven! The premises had one con clu~iuu Only-,iii"rcC
 All the world knows the story. The Empress had both man and nature against her. As to tho Corsican, she hal lived with him for nearly fourteen years. She knew too we'll the futility of resisting him. IT would seem that all oXY> ,iiyntS wtIo useless. At length the Emptr r'> mind was madoup He broke his purYcs'' to Josephine aS gently as might h., at MalmaiSou. Tho divorce WIS Hrrall.,,l on tho l5th and I6th of December, I>o9 The Bonapartes had now full satisfaction. No child of Joso- Yhiuv should cvrr wear tho tN3drm of France. Narolt~n did as much as he might to alleviate her despair. He left her NaimtiSon, her title of Empress, and a pouSiNu If two million francs
 After tho fallen, lThom' Would tho Emperor of tho French, son of tho mul- hCrry-wom III of Ajaccio choose another -as he had chosen the first-by nature and natures law. Or would he calcu- late: Would he find ill Nendce or Cotes du Nord CT Lorraine sOmo peasant girl, some Fucello of Arc. and make her-as ho had mado himself-Imrolial, and from her wait to sec springing his pos sillo lion < whclp, so COvctcd-and nec- esSary: Or would he, hoping to pacify tho past, choose some princess out of the House of his fricnds-such friends as GuStavus CT Alexander or Frederick William 1T Francis:
 Tho rCr.,y 10, ,,,o,, evcu i'll NaQolCon. The splendors of dynastic glory obliteratcd the plebeian instincts of his naturo The eagle of Austprlitz dove into the thicket of the past, and mated with a Hapsburg! Maria Louisa, child of our we'll beloved brother, the good and faith keeping Francis. whose subjects we lately met or tho field of Wagram, is our choice
 There was little delay. Maria Louisa was appalled, at tho prospoct-at the first Tho woman ill such cases is hard to qucnch. But Francis would havo an Emperor f1r on-iu-law: and the daughter uf Francis aSScnted With swift prrliminari,'S the royal CavalCade, on thr 18th If March, lHl0, swept out of Vienna, bearing her to her fate On the l>t f April, at tho old palace of St. Cloud. shining splundidlv for the occa- sion, the civil marriage Was performed. The PvY refused to approve the divorce Uf JoN'l h.nv, Most ot the cardinals, de- Cliuim2 tn h!,~S the 'uarriagv, Were stripped cf their >-4l',t regalia and banlshoI from Paris.
 In the Tuilcri,s. Maria Louisa sought at first 10 play the part of Imperatrice with Gai"'y ard good will. Tradition adds that Napoleon loved hey. Certain ly he sad 50; and his future conduct in tho marital relation was more exem- plary than before. There were no more Madame Foures, Countess Grassinis, Madame %S:'s, Stephanies, EloenoreS, doTtvnseS, Walowskas, or other beauti- ful Uncertainties on the horizon. But the vivacity and charm of tho court of Josephine never returned. She at least had accom- pIi>hHt ntS.
 The new Empress fulfilled her part with the apathetio smile of a Haps- burg. On the night of the goth of March, lSll, the .ftticth glin from the battery announced to Paris a-tiptoe that the Imperial programme had been fulfilled to the letter; tho King of Rome was born! JoSpehine. at Malmaison. might | almost have heard the artillery and shouting. Would she have smiled if the | firing had ceased with tho forty ninth gun? That would have meant a ddiLgh- Ter.
 In May of I8l0 it could be said of Napoleon that he had had his way. In l a few instances his prOdigious dreams had dissipated into naught; but only in a few, His great scheme of planting French civilization in Northeastern Africa and of carrying thence the tri- color to Damascus, Aleppo and BaSdad, had failed. His project of making Con stantinople the outpost of France in the East had vanished like a chimera His hope of beating England on the soa end- cd with Trafalgar But for all the rest, what was left unfulfillod to the Dream CT and Iconoclast? Out of the mulberry patch in Ajaccio he had risen to the supreme seat of power in tho most splendid capital of the world. And he was not yet forty-onel
 As for war, that had sunk into mut- tering and growing on the horizon During the year no great battle was fought in Europe. Napoleon had the landI and the sea was England's. In the Spanish peninsula, the English and Frannh armies advanced or Teoeded by