Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-25
P0LEON, As Seen
by His Associates
NApOLEONS EARLY LOVES

this kind Of Joke. II dlstressos me-
coming from YOU
"Bonaparto assured her over and over
again that he was Bcrious that the age
OF the woman whom he should marry
was Indifferent TO him H. like herself
che did not appear 10 be past thirty
that he had maturely considered the
proposal which he had just made 20
her and he added these very remark
able words I am determined to marry
They want TO give me a woman who ~
charming. good tempered agreeable
and who belongs to the Faubourg 81
Germaln. My Paris friends are In ia
vor Of this match Ny old friends dis
suade me from It, For my own part
/ wish to marry and what | propose TO
you suits me IN many respects. THINK
about IT,. My mother broke of the
conversation. telling him laughlngly
that for her own part she had no oc-
casion TO think any further She gave
him her hand and repeated stu laugh
ing, that. though she had some preten-
sions, they did not aspire so nigh as 20
conquer the heart Of a man twenty
six"
Mime. Permon did not change her
mind. and Napoleon welded the
Charming, good tempered. agreeable
Josephine Beauharnais. Then his Gu
genie Clary, aroused at last, opened her
heart IN pathetic letter
you have broken my heart" she
wrote him yet | am weak enough to
forgive you everything. You are mar
ricd and ! have no longer the right to
love and think of you. The only con-
ISOLATION which remains for me Is to be
assured OF your belief IN my constancy;
then long for DEATH FOR life Is bur
1 ...N U,lf a.
TO you, i cannot accustom myself TO
the thought that you are married II
Is too hard, too cruel | viii prove TO
you that I am more faithful to my
engagement than you to yours, and
though you have broken the chain
which united us ! shall hold IL bind
Ing | shall never marry ! wish you
every happiness and all prosperity In
your marriage. and hope that the WOO
man you have chosen VIII make you
az happy as | had meant 10 do and MS
you deserve But IN the midst Of your
happiness remember poor Eugene and
pity her sad fate"
But she did marry and Napoleon
long interested himself In the fortunes
Of her husband, General Bernadotte.
on one occasion he wrote to Berna-
dotte, who had just been wounded in
battle.
- am glad TO learn that Nine. Berna-
dotte is with you Pray give her my
affectionatc regards and add that |
have one little thing 20 reproach her
with-she might have written me
line giving me the news of Paris, but |
viii have It out with her when we
meet"
Mime. Bernadotte asked Napoleon to
stand AS godfather to her frstborn, aud
when he became emperor he showered
honors and wealth upon her husband,
who was finally called from French
battlehelds TO the throne Of Sweden.
Said Napoleon:
"Bernadottes becoming a marshal OF
France, prince of Pontecorvo and king
Of Sweden were all owing to his mar
riage with my first sweetheart"
The first offspring OF this marriage,
Oscar Bernadotte, married Josephine
Beauharnais. daughter Of the first Jo-
sephlue's son Eugene. Oscar succeeded
his father TO the throne of sweden.
and his son uniting I'm his blood that
OF Benadotte, Beauharnais and Clary
Is the present king Of Sweden and Nor
way oscar II. Thus while the Bona
parte dynasty Is extinct, a lineal de-
scendnnt of Josephine Beauharnais the
wife whom Napoleon divorced, and Of
Desiree- Eugene Clary, the sweetheart
who accused him OF Hitting her, wears
a crown, which i'm the natural course
Of things will remain in the family for
generations,
GEORGE l., KILMER.
Note--"The Little Corporal and His