The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-06

copyright, 1894, by S. S. Mcclure
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The son of Napoleon L, Francis
Charles Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte,
King of Rome, Duke of Reichstadt,
Prince of Parma, was ushered into the
world with a pomp, rapturous acclaim
and euIogy, that told Of his precious dig
nifty and Importance. It was nearly at
the cost of her own life that the EN-
press Maria Louise presented Napoleon
with this eagerly desired heir. Never
has there been a more forcible eXempli-
fication of the truth that man pro-
poses, God disposes," than in the des-
tiny OF her child.
At the infants first wailing cry, his
eXultaut sire saluted the pink mOrsel Of
humanity as King of Rome, and be
slowed upon the pulling babe, the great
agile Of the Legion CT Honor. the grand
cross of the iron crown, and the ORDER
of the Golden Fleece. When the bal
was baptized in the Cathedral of NoJre
Dame by Cardinal Fesch, an Archduke
OF Austria and the mother of Napoleon
were his sponsors. O shades of Schon-
bruan and pining eaglet of Francel
How different the ending from the he
: ginning.
v Il had been announced that if the
child were a son, one hundred salvos
should be fired from the cannon of the
Paris fortifications. Should it prove
only daughter. twenty-one were deem
ed sufficient to herald the event
For Dramatic Effect.
At o'clock on the morning of the
goth of March, 1911, the first below of
the brazen mouths told the people that
Napoleon had become a father Per-
hapS it was the French passion for
dramatic effects that made the interval
Between the twenty-first and twenty
second roar of the cannon longer than
that between any of the others. Doubt
less the breathlesS eagerneSs Of the peo-
pie made ii seem longer than it was.
But ii came, a louder boom than ever.
And before the grey dawn had caught
its echo the populaee was shouting,
rushing wildly about, thronging to the
Tuileries, and wearing ont their lungs
IN clamorous greeting of the King of
Rome.
Apartments on the ground floor of the
Tuileries were set apart for the young
king and all the force and worth of
Madame de NGontesquien were given un-
Stintedly 10 moulding him for his high
estate.
The following incident is a proof that
she went about it well. One day the
Mis- VI ANOAllG SOl mo d III Vi rage DIS
violent and plel0iap as if he were the
baby of a, sansculotte. The countess
Nquietly had all the curtains drawn.
Struck by the sudden gloom, Francois
Charles demanded an explanation of the
thing. "One day" replied the countess
eraYely, you must govern these people
who are outside the windows. And I
did not wish them TO see you in such an
unworthy fit of anger
But it was not long the Tuileries and
the subordination of all his world to
his training for imperial power. Before
his proud father could complete the pal
ace which he had started for his son on
the Siene opposite the Bridge of Jena,
Napoleon l. was an idol oVerthrown. In
1914 the allies entered Paris. A little
later the empress mother and her in
FAINT son We're in flight, accompanied by
the faithful Countess de Montesquien
Il was a fight not without its dangers
1t was the beginning of Part Second in
the life Of the King. of Rome, and from
then to the wretched end, when after
violent convulsion; the wasted Duke OF
Reichstadt died with a piteous cry for
his mother on his lips, the sadness of il
has hardly any relief
Final Separation.
The separation OF the boy and his
father at this time was a final one
They never saw each other again in
life. Seven years later the great Ma