The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-13

control Of the French finances, had
levied taxes as he chose, and disposed
OF them as he chose, and rendered no
accounts. 1t is well known that there
is no trace in the French archives Of
the $15,000000 purchase money paid by
the United States for. louisiana Ma
poleon 1. had simply pocketed 1t and
d1sbursed 1t as he saw proper. The
nephew followed in the uncIe's foot
steps. In the first flush of the anti
BonaIartist rage and modification
which followed upon the disaster of
Sedan and the flight Of the imperial
family from Paris the Theirs govern
ment authorized the publication of a
book containing such private papers
and correspondence of Napoleon III
and memorandum books of his secre-
taries as had been found in the Tuil-
cries. This book appeared In October.
1870, but speedily disappeared when
the government recognized that the
revelations SO made were as shameful
to France as to the Bonapartes. But
though the book was suppressed it was
impossible to suppress the facts which
it had made public.
BOLDNESS A WINNING CARD.
They showed that the French nation
in 1851. as in 1904, had allowed am ad-
venturer to take almost as complete
and irresponsible control of it's treas
ury- as any Of the Bourbons, with all
the traditions of the old monarchy. be-
hind them, and had never called him
to account until the failure of a great
war
Between 1848 and the coup d'etat Of
1851 Prince Louis Napoleon and his
friends had been in the sorest straits.
He had come over from London
xryrSn f11< Il Il 4
for he had borrowed heavily on the
strength of his expectations His sal
airy as president had been COMPARE
lively small, and he had no access to
the treasury. But with the beginning
of the second empire the public trough
was opened to the emperor and his
hungry adj ents.
1t appeared from the Theirs publica-
ton that during the years from 1851
to 1870 his relatives to many degrees
of remoteness had received some $14,
O00,0 in all. without even a pre'tenSe
of any return in services to the state,
and that as much more had been
sQuandered among his former miss
tresses and his broken-down follow
ers in the way of gifts, pensions, sub
ventlons. indemnities and encourage
ments" to art, literature and science.
A snug little sum of $5,000,000 had also
been put away with the Earrings in
London for the rainy day which final
ly burst around the imnerialistic ears
to. the lurid accompaniment Of the
thunders and lightnings of the German
guns.
In the hands of the thrifty Empress
Eugene this financial umbrella has not
been allowed to diminish in size. At
Chislehurst the imperial exiles lived
in comfort, but not in luxury.
Since the death of NaDOleOn ILL., and
of the unfortunate youth whom the
Bonapartists style Napoleon ", the
empress has courted still more frugal
retirement. Her largest expenditures
have probably been in charities, which.
though generous. have made no serious
inroads even into her income. The
principal has continually grown by an
nual accessions of interest and by
shrewd investments. 1t is now esti-
mated at 100000
It is understood that she has, after
some fluctuations of intention. finally
decided upon Prince Victor Napoleon
as their heir, although her preference
has always been for Prince Louis.
PRINCESS JEANNE.
There are other expectations which
the bachelor prince may look forward
to If he becomes EMPEROR. There is a
Bonapartist princess, only seventeen
years old, who has fabulous wealth in
her own right and in expectation. This
is the beautiful Princess Jeanne.
Roland, a scion of the outcast Lucien
Bonaparte branch, and on the other
granddaughter and heiress of the
Blanc. who founded the gambling
house at Monte Carlo.
M Blanc's family are worth over
$50, 900, 900. On the marriage of hia
daughter to a Bonaparte he presented
her with magnificent dot, which suf-
feed to re-establish the blighted
branch of the. Napoleonides in the
imperial purple of wealth. A
large part of that dot was inherited by
the young Princess Jeanne on the
death of her mother. 1t is no secret
that the same instinct which made her
gambler grandfather enrich her father
and her mother survives in her uncle,
Edmond Blanc, who has inherited that
grandfather's patrimony. A fresh
shower of gold would doubtless greet
iher establishment in the Tuileries, with
the eagles and the imperial bees as the
perquisites of her husband.
Prince Louis, when his star was In
the ascendant and while he was still
OdCLclOl, was 1iSSly tdlhSO VI elS tlldI
husband. His recent marriage has put
a stop to that talk. But Prince Victor,
once his star became absolutely efful-
gent, might do as well.
Even if the marriage did not come
about, it seems likely that the Blanc
millions would find an escape valve
somewhere in the Tuileries.
The present head of the house is am
bilious. He has bought a racing stud
of some 300 horses, which enables him
to rub shoulders with the aristocratic
lovers of the turf. He got himself elect
ed mayor Of a small commune near
Paris, he bought 100000 francs worth
of worthless shares in a journal of M.
Wilson and was in consequence decor
ated. More recently he won his way
to an election to seat in the lower
Pyrenees, but the election wassubse-
quently invalidated. Though he him
self married an excellent woman of the
bourgeois class, he has courted noble
alliances for his relatives. He would.