The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26
TITLE OF NAPOLEON IlI.n
Story of How the Little Emperor Received
His Appellation.

Whatever may be theimmediate chances
of Bonapartist restoration in France.
there is no doubt that the present repre-.
sentative of the Napoleons is taking the
situation seriously. 1t Is even reported
that proclamation to the French people.
signed Napoleon "" is in print, ready
TO be posted in Paris at the psychologfcal
moment and the very name suggestS
strange recollections, especially on the
| twenty-siXth anniversary of the death I'll
| Napoleon III. There has always been
S3n ne my mystery as to Why that PARTICULAR
by the merest fiction TIA that t tRe Due wd az
Helcnstadt, son Of the great Bonaparte,
can be considered to have reigned Tho
lradluon story of how the numeral first
came TO be thought of was originally re.
lated, within a month after Louis Napo.
leon had become emperor, by Lord Cow
Malmesbury, our foreign secretary. n
was that the project of Bourges, where
me prince-president slept the first night
o. OF ms ms progress 81 IN provincial France IN
ne m autumn Of 1852, had given instructions
mat the people were to shout "vive Ma
poleonr but he wrote "Vive Napo-
ieoni.P and the crowd took the three
neral III, and shouted accordingly
One Of the band of conspirators who
surrounded tia Louis Napoleon at and after
however, to have the glory of inventine
the mineral; and in his posthumousiy
published Memoirs" the once notorious
DUO de Persigny declared that It was he
who, on his own account, gave the necesS
sarE order to the project
mere IS train" he began, ''esying
~ st RS Tor Bourges in an hour, Take care
70 eaten II. Resume your duties without
seeing any one here and without LETTING
soul know your secret Instructions
!, d nese Instructions are: L'empirel Vive
reigned. but he was proclaimed emperor
oy MS father. Render. then, this homage
- ~ e1 l'.i memory OF great man; announce
ready tod you to summon all the mu-
ilclpallties of your department Set, In
hand, without losing moment, flags in
sIGyIlpe1 wye empereur! on one side ana
,ENlNe Napoleon III! on the other. Place
the same inscription on the triumphant
4 p,taa es under which the prince will pass.
Preserve the utmost secrecy in these
preparations, and when the day comes
tt55i ofs ooIlr to me from hour to hour all
Persigny's story, however, is little more
eisll d turgld application of the posts
SCRIPT or a letter written to Malmesbury
VVtUIjIaS me prlnce-presidents progress BY
H Mai6ewskii then French ambassador in
prince proceeds from triumph to triumph,
~ ms departure from Paris they oriedi
,, wye NISapoleon!' and a few 'Vive Fem
peIeuf' On his return there will be a
unanimous chorus of 'Vive FempereurI
and 'Nive Napoleon III!' I" Persisny ad.
mltted in his Memoirs, indeed, that
when it served him he was an unscrupu-
I2us liar, and it is far easier to believe
the story told by Lord Cowley
IN view of the possibility of the arrival
OF q Napoleon w" and especially if. as
Is limited, with the sympathy of the Rus
sian court, IT is striking to recall that tbe
French official opinion of 1862 was thai
Russia was attempting to persuade GraaS
Britain TO object to the numeral. in ordes
10 sow dissension between the two weeT
ern nations. But there was more slih.
stantial reason for the annoyance fell Nv,
the British government at the assumntioyH,
or the mineral, IN which was thotighf 10
and which was not removed until ToUis
Napoleon himself, after some heated na9
gottations consented to insert in H.
speech to the great bodies of the state ~
~ Gloud; on December /, 1852, accepting
the imperial crown, the following expianss
atory paragraph: S1NPlaI-
:, Il take from this day, with the crov,r
me, me name OF Napoleon III because M
tbsI ol tIe people bestowed it upon me in
Snelr dcGlamatlons, because the senata
mas legally proposed it. and becauss a."
whole nation has ratified ii Tbms % 1t tIo
because the title of Napoleon TT 'ie rn,
~ otad ot nose dynastic and superannt1.'
atSu pretehSlons which seem to he ~, ~
SUIT 10 good sense and to truth n d 1s ~. ~,
homage rendered to a goyernnnenf 70 tlis
Is leglnmate and to which we nye ' ~
Nv reiss,, pases or our modern history.
Wy reign does not date from iEi5. r. III ioi
from this very moment whep 80 ~ uales
! ton. " '''ii ''Sss ol the ma
our government at once recognized Al.
eihpiIe, consequent upon this decIare +t ero
ana the numeral passed into bIstn lll a. i,oll
tndt portion of the French chroririy' uus
s,Il iPor55ruy closed siX-and- twenty vesrs
! q Gefmnt eu lie neVeu de son oncfe" dieS
soil N'h exile on British