Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-11
BONAPART|ST GOLD
French Pretenders Now Have
Plenty of Funds.
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CHANGE IN FORTUNES OF LOUIS
AND VICTOR NAPOLEON.
Mature of Paris Military Machinery
Favors a Sudden Stroke-Oficers
Blindly obedient.
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Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

special Correspondence of The Evening Star
PARIS, March 1, 1905.
French republicans are troubled by the
millions that seem literally raining on the
Bonaparte pretenders. Possessed OF an al
most unlimited campaign fund, their posi-
ton will be very different from what II
was year ago
\ wear ago the two brothers, Victor Napo-
leon Bonaparte and Louis Napoleon Bona
parte possessed little more than name anu
the little corporars gray coat and cooked
hat. which Victor keeps with plous care III
q glass case beside his desk in Brussels
Louis. his younger brother. had his pay as
q Russian general and pocket money from
his aged aunt, the Princess Matmide. 1rue'
he had b,en encouraged during the Drey-
fus affair when the tsar, TO emphasize
things. made him general. who was simple
colonel; but Victor stood in his way anu
would do nothing, sitting comfortably Win
n norganatic wife beside bourgeois ire-
side.
Now II looks like new deal
o,,is the Younger brother was the hrst
20 bepin His aunt the Princess Mathhde,
died: and he is now in Paris counting up
her immense fortune left to him as sole
iegatee.
Vast Pile of Coin.
Rumor has it that the DemldoHs paio
,,,tbirda annually, since 1s45 the year Of
her separation from Prince Denl>oh' mex
husband. a pension of 100000 francs, ana
that she regularly put aside from one-half
TO three-quarters OF it as sacred Bona
parte restoration fund 10 De useu "heh an, tne
Hines should grow ripe. To nVe on IKE
a urincess she still had the balance or IL
annually plus the income from the fortune
she inherited from Catherine OF Nurtem-
bourg Calculate what 100000 or 1Jo.oOo
francs a year ought TO amount 10 at com
mound interest during sixty years linen
add the capital of the WurtemDouFS lor-
tune. the palace in the Rue de Berri tnow
sold TO the Belgian legauonl; the paintings
staruary tapestries, furniture and bric-a-
brac that il contained. Mathflde's coiec-
fion of incompatible jewels among which
note the famous necklace of three rows of
pearls, presented by Napoleon l TO Gather
Inc and the noble chateau at Enghien,
where Mathilde died
Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte has in
farited IL all whether it be 13.o0O,oO0 20
G06 u.0 or 20 600 600 francs. He was her
favorfte and she detested Victor for his
Gog-in-the-manger lack OF push ana lazy
contcntment that nevertheless refused to
bulge TO give Louis a chance TO try pre-
leadership.
And now. before Louis can have finished
counting up his Doodle Victor comes out
In an utterly new character, surprising
everybody by abandoning his bourgeois Hre-
eide and pretending to the hand of Princess
Ciementtne, the fayor1te daughter OF the
old King of the Belgians
The stand taken by the Princess Glenn
entine Is now known. She will do nothing
to wound the heart of her dangerous old
sire-and get herself disinherited like her
two sisters. But she will walt respectfully
Tor him to soften at the spectacle of Vic
tors faithful love (and some far-reaching
plans perhaps. that appeal to his sardonic
sens OF humor and his hatred Of all things
republlcanl and when he finally consents,
NE Princess Clementine will wed Prince
Victor Napoleon Bonaparte. whether he
stiu be pretender to the French imperial
throne. whether ne shall have resigned
his claims to Louis in order to have won
her hand
The God of the Machine
Hum, hum!
That is what French republicans say
'Hum hunt The clearest part of IT all is
that here are 10000 900 francs more Doodle
coming into the Bonaparte campaign fund.
1'he very resignation of the loving couples
whether or not" looks ominous 1t looks
Ike a cinch for the Bonapartes with a mod
e1n royal alliance to boot. Why the King
of Italy recently sounded President Ioubet
on the subject, It is so delicate. The King
of Italy is Prince Victors first cousin
And the Car of Russia is Louis Napoleon's
trfend. And he likes republics even less
than does the King of the Belgans
Hum, hum say French republicans
Whether or not Prince Victor resigns his
pretendership matters little in itself. but
the 1000, 900 francS-it Is a iot of moneyt
1'he Princess Clementine will have It, on his
death. from her beloved father-it being the
pulk of his intelligent money-getting less