The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-16

| / have ever seen, so gentle and so
graceful and kind, and the courtesy is
charming, so modest ana retiring with
al. Surely the ties tin1ony CT the most
honored queen in Europe should out
weigh the spitefuI railing of jealousy
or thWarted ambition.
The irrespensibilEry OF girlhood cam
not, however. be urged in extenuation
of the lively times that made sle even
lings at the TuilerieS the target OF inter
national craftsmanship. 1t was the
| tomboyishness of her girlhood. always
under poor self-control, carried on into
wonanhood. At the time of her mar
riage she was in her 2Sth year, in the
full meridian of her beauty, with what
ever self-poise and mature development
that age Is supposed TO insure. TO her
exquisite beauty her rounded maturity
put the finishing touch. Her complex
ion was English, and her style Of
beauty more Spanish than French. Her
hair was of strands mixed of the color
of ripe wheat and TitianeSque chestnut
According to the light in which she
stood one or the other color was dOnli
nant. giving great diversity to her
classic features and enhancing the al
most alabaster purity Of her skin.
The great exposition of 1867 saw Ma
Doleon III and Eugene at the zenith
of their power. The sovereigns Of
Europe who had looked askance while
Victoria sheltered the royal Darvenus
under her wing, now believed the throne
of France TO be upon firm foundation,
and came to Paris to pay their tardy
ho1na ge. How little they knew that
in three short years the empire would
have vanished as swiftly as it had once
banished the republic. Even as the en-
peror was giving out the prizes came
the news Of Maximilian's death-the
knell of the empire.
Believing that nothing would eradi-
cate the damaging impression of the
Maximilian fiasco like a successful war,
Napoleon took advantage of the fli1nsy
prefeXt which precipitated the Franco
Prussian war. AS soon as the news OF
the fail OF Sedan reached Paris, the
usual mob attacked the Tuileries and
Eugene, deserted by servants and all
friends but one fled from France. 1t
is said that as she looked round upon
her deserted apartments,A where so
many queens had dragged out a
wretched existence. she exclaimed: 1T
is all dreanl-a hollow, hollow
dream!" She fled to England, that
popular asylum for unfortunate French
rulers, where she was Joined shortly
after by her husband and son. Two
years later Napoleon III died, and not
long afterwards the prince imperial
WE'LL 10 Aluu w dI W sam d 1AAilt-
tary aureole, which might heighten his
attractions to the French populace.
Deserted by his friends and killed on
the African battlefield, with him fell
the last remnant of Bonapartist pres
tige. The death Of the future Napoleon
" recalled the curious fact that for
more than 200 years, since the reign of
Louis XIV, NO French monarch had
been succeeded by his son.
Practically dead to the world from
her twenty-eight years of exile, it is al
most with a start that we read of
Eugenies existence. We are so used
to thinking of the book of her life as
closed that any further chapters seem
like posthumous editions. Many await
with interest the publication of her
journal, not to be printed until a fixed
number of years after he!- death. While
it may not exonerate her from all the
indiscretions laid at her door, it will
doubtless throw great light upon the
Kaleidoscope complexities of her sim
gular life. She frequently goes to
Notre Dame unrecognized and unob-
served, to pray for the souls of her
husband and son.
Ncte-"Queen Louisa of Prussia" is
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