The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-08

done that, dreamed of the time when the cabin dwel1er would again live in a palace and he clothed with the pow CT and the authority of the Governor of Toulon. And that, too, he was to lexperience before his romantic career had run its course What a remark able story is the life of this Alabama ferryman.
 And the presiding genius of the cab- in on the banks of Big Creek, the shar- CT of his misfortunes, the wife of his bosom was of the nobility. March, ioness of Jenbaldi she had been, maid of honor to Queen Caroline. She came to cook the meals in the open fire- place of a pioneer cabin. and to do the monotonous heart-breaking tasks Of
 the wife of a pioneer. In time she
 moved again in a. palace. among the
 cultured and the rich.
 More of a favorite of fortune, after
 Waterloo, was Raoul than Napoleon.
 For not only did Raoul's fortunes mend. 1 but the soldiers trials were shared, the | hurts of fate were comforted by the
 woman of his heart. Napoleon had no such solace at St. Helena. When the | great heart was beating itself out in prison the Austrian Princess whom he had made an Empress, lived in ease and luxury in a palace, with Count Nip | perg close by, Nipperg whose only l claims to notice was that he was the
 man who had aroused the jealousy of I Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoieon.s Friend and Heir. An even greater man of the French Empire and one whose image Napoleon 1 carried in his heart was General Lefe- bore Desnouettes, the leader of the erqigrants. Napoleon gave to Lefebore- Desnouttes the love and confidence he gave to no other man.
 In that great tragedy, the retreat xxyka he
 was paved with the dead soldiers of France Lefebre Desnouettes rode in the carriage, side by side with Napoleon, | shared in his sorrow of the tragedy and comforted the Emperor in his af- fiction.
 At FontainbIeau. the deposed Elm peror bade his soldiers a pathetic | farewell. as he left for his first exile | on the island of Elba He could not embrace all of his soldiers. he told them, but he would embrace Levebvre- l Desnouettes for them all. On the trf- umphant return from Elba 1t was the Emperor's pleasure to make his faith full friend and confidant a Count of the
 Empire and invest him with the rank
 of Lieutenant-General.
 l A career of honors, was the career | of this splendid soldier of fortune. la | this career he was an aide to Napoleon | at Marengo, a commandant of the Le- l zion of Honor for distinguished gal
 lantry at Austerlitz. equally conspicu- | ous at Bautzen; he was surrounded at
 Brienne; and fought at the grand cata-
 clysm of Waterloo. To the day of his
 death, Napoleon honored him. His | will directed that the sum of 150,000
 francs should be give nto his friend. And Desnoueltes was an Alabama
 exile, with the sentence of death hang ing over him from a Bourbon court | tfaI nf wealth Alabama, but his wealth could not in
 a virgin land buy him the comforts that
 the poorest French peasant enjoyed His wife was a sister of La Fitte, the
 famous French banker. sShe remained
 in France when the distinguished au-
 thor fled from the power of the restored Bourbons. She sent him large remit tances, and his heart and purse were
 open to the poorer and needier emil
 grants. He was a we'll spring of conn
 fort to the poorer and needier Of the
 colony. | The Temple of War.
 His devotion to the fallen Emperor
 was pathetic. It was his ruling pas
 sion till his tragic death. He. wor-
 shipped the great soldier as god. He
 built a temple to Napoleon. Its archi- | lecture was the architecture of an Ala
 bama cabin, but 1t was none the less | a temple. "r
 1 The walls were utChcu Wlth and pistols and festooned with flags Every foot of the decorated wall re- called the carnival of glory of the | Empire.
 | In the center was a bronze statue | of Napoleon. And at certain hours or
 the day, the General without an army,
 the soldier without a cause. the lieu. tenant without a captain, the patriot
 without a country, retired to the tenn
 pied cabin and communed with the
 past. In solitude he offered up his de- voirs to his demi-God of war Drowned at Sea. He was drowned at sea. His faithtul wife labored Loyalty and earnestly with | the Bourbon court to have the ban or
 oatlawry removed. In time she partly
 succeeded. He was given permission | to come to Belgium. He left the colony
 and sailed for Europe in the year of | 1923 on the Albion. of the coast of
 Ireland the Albion, inauspicious name | to a soldier of France. was struck by | a storm. Desnouveltes was washed overheard and a tragedy of the sea end | ed a life of romance.
 If 1t were all set down what fiction | could excel 1t?
 The French came to Alabama in 1918.
 They were in America and in Alabama | as q result of the decree of Bourbon
 Louis dated June Fist. In this decree
 it was his wish to exclude from his | presence none but those whose celeb rity is a matter of grief to France and | of horror to Europe"
 Continuing. the decree said, T owe | it, then, to the dignity of my crown, l to the interests of my people, to the re- pose of Europe to except from pardon | the instigators of this horrible plot. | They shall be designated to the ven- | geance of the laws by the two chambers
 which I propose forthwith to assem- l blc."
 In a short while the anger of the l Bourbons cooled, and they deemed 1t | the better part of wisdom to modify l their original hambuoyant proclama-
 tions of outlawry. But in the mean
 while the hegira of Bonapartists to
 America had started.
 l They formed an association in Phil | adelphia, these eXiles and ensigns, for
 mutual aid and benefit. It was their | purpose to found colony somewhere
 in the West and spend their days in the peace and quiet of an agricultural
 life.
 This was in 1877 and Alabama was a
 part of Mississippi Territory. The | original purpose of the emigrants was
 changed somewhat, and they selected
 as a site for the colony land lying at | the confluence of the Tombigbee and Warrior River,
 TO the Association Congress granted | -four contiguous townships, each of six
 miles square" at the junction of the 1918 the colonists sailed from Philadel- phia for what was to become Demopo- lis and Marengo County.
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