The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-07
One Secret Of 81. Helena Has
Just Been Made Public.
TWO SONS WERE BORN THERE.
One Of Them Old Well in Life and the Other
Became Plrate-Matha
Was CslpTsd.

Apfopos OF u Alglon ana the details
which have been recently published con-
corning Ludwig. the tailor, the presumed
son or the Duo de Reichstadt, and there
fore, the grandson OF Napoleon, here is
another story which may be Of interest TO
lovers OF Napoleonic annals.
The hidden chronicles OF history are
ever the most interesting. The following
facts have been kept secret TOR many
years. The details were. OF course, known
to few persons OF st Helena at the
time OF Napoleons detention there, and
also in the colony where the sequel took
place. but they have never had wide
publicity.
Few of those acquainted with the real
story now survive, but IL is from one OF
these survivors that the information now
given was received.
When the glory OF Napoleon Bonaparte's
name illuminated the whole civilized
world the Corsican adventurer who was
destined 10 become the greatest emperor
in Europe nourished the fallacious hope
that his family should become the royal
house of France.
When one remembers the hopes, the
dreams. and the ambitions of Napoleon, Il
is pathetic 60 remark that no direct des-
cendant of his is now known to the world.
Yet, TO achieve the hope OF imperial pos
terity. he divorced his first wife-the Gre
ole adventuress-in the zenith OF his glory
and an emperor gave him his daughters
In, rrfoe sba
ed-for heir arrived. Royalties came from
far and near TO the christening. and Ma
poleon thought that his dream had grown
into truth.
But a score OF years later this Inflated
King % Rome--who had become the Duke
of Reichstadt-died, IL is supposed with
out issue. at his grandfather's court.
while the great emperor himself ate his
heart out in oblivion, a prisoner on his
rocky isle.
NAPOLEoN'S ISLAND LOVE AFFAIR.
In his terrible loneliness and despair.
this emperor. who had married Josephine
de Beauharnais and Marie Louise OF Aus
tria, was comforted and solaced by an
African woman. She was the wife OF one
of the soldiers belonging to a native regi-
ment under the British flag which was
quartered with English troops on st.
Helena 10 guard the noble exile.
What the ex-emperors feeling for the
humble woman WAS we do not know Ma
poleon was never "a great admirer of
women. 1t is probable that with the ex-
ception of Madame Mere he never re-
spected one. for the women OF France of
today are still writhing under the injus-
tice OF his code.
He therefore took the attentions of the
black lay as his due. Yet she loved him.
for she bore him two sons.
The liaison came to an end when the
regiment was sent 10 guard British port
in the colonies and the two children ac-
companied their mother and her husband.
The two boys, who were OF rather fair
complexion. received 81 tolerably good
educa ton.
One. being more intelligent than his
Brother. entered a professional firm i'm tho
capacity OF office boy.
lie worked his way steadily up until he
took good position. and some years af-
ter had become so indispensable 10 his emr
ployers that he was taken into partners
ship. lie married and left a family. His
portrait is still TO be seen Ia the office OF
his successor.
HE BECAME 4 PIRATE.
The other son. clever ne'er-do-well.
married a Chinese woman. and is said TO
have become. more or less the associate
OF pirates, who infest that coast. The
blood OF his illustrious parent seems 60
have declared itself In an unforeseen
manner.
BY the help OF his wife he succeeded in
acquiring by Illicit means ine revenue
from the customs authorities. His method
was first through her TO denounce the
movements OF the pirates, for which he
was handsomely paid, and then. after
l,ax. .ft,~ .uaIf IaI he. t.4v fau 20 ft..
spot where the authorities were about 60
make search. 90 hurry off before capture
was effected.
lie also died leaving issue. SO 10 this
day the erandsons. and probably great
grandchildren OF Napoleon, though they
are not heirs to the French throne. still
live in British colony.