The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20

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match oil, In fact, except N" First Consul,
whodid not forthe present concur with them
hia action being dictated by policy with
which HE family had nothing 10 do. Hc
advised that jerome should stay In tho
United States. and even got naturnlizrd
there. In speaking "a he did, Licien, who
had recently married his second wife against
Napoicon's Wishes, exhibited his usual
Independence Of character, but. In n few
weeks time he himself was in exile because
Of his marriage. and within n few months
the rsat ~ the family was. out wardly at
least, In asreemr mt with Napoleon's policy
toward Jerome.
NAPOLEON allowed some time to elnpse
before he took any decided steps. II was
not until April -, 1904, that his Minister Of
Marine informed the French Consul-GeneTa
at Washing ton that Jerome must at once
obey the orders already sent for his return
on a French ~frigate, but that "all captains
OF French vessels should be prohibited
from receiving on board the young person
with whom he had formed a connection,
il being the First Consul's intention that
l. .A-,,II not aAt foot tn Era fa-anH
did she come thither, that she should be
sent back Immediately to the United States. "
In a personal letter to jerome the Minister
OF Marine quoted what Napoleon had said
to him Il will receive jerome II he leaves
the young person in America, and comes
hither TO associate himself with my for
tunes. II he brings her with him, she
shall not get foot in the territory Of France.
II he comes alone, / will forgive the error
OF n moment and the fault Of youth. Faith
full services and the conduct which is due
to himself will regain for him all my kind
ness"
Napoleon's decision reached jerome In
August, 1904, simultan eously with the news
of the proclamation OF an empire, 80 that
in the same hour the young husband knew
himself to be the brother of an emperor
and to be commanded to renounce his wife.
In a letter write, in June to the Freach
Consul-Ge1eral Napoleon had declared
that Jerome could not have hoped to have
his maria ge recognized as valid, and that
he, Napoleon, con sideral it as null. He
quoted a French statute on the subject,
and stated that he could not permit his
family to break the law.
Still confident hat the sight of Elizabeth
would soften the Empcror's heart, jerome,
on March 3, 1905, set sail in one of his father
in-law's vessels, and about a month later
reached Lisbon. Napoleon had taken his
precautions. In February of h game
year a solemn protest had been published
nominally by Jerome's mother, Nine.
Letizia B~onaparte, against the American
marriage, and about a week later Napoleon
had published a decree which, abiding to
his mothers protest against "the pretended
marriage Of her son. jerome Bonaparte,
a minor, contracted in a foreign country
without his mothers consent, and without
previous publication in the place OF his dom
icile," forbade civil officials of the empire
to receive on their registers a transcription
OF the certificate of celebration OF the cere-
mony. Some weeks later a further decree
reinforced the former, and pronounced
the marriage null and any offspring from
it illegitimate.
1t is we'll known that Jerome's wife was
not allowed to land in Lisbon-Portugal,
Spain and Holland, as well as France, hav-
ing been closed to her by the desire OF En-
peror Napoleon. Jerome himself received
a peremptory order to proceed to Italy.
there to meet his imperial brother. Jerome
lost no time in complying with the order.
being still apparently confident that he
would soon be able to send for his wife.
Reaching Turin on April "a, 1905, he sent
an appeal to his brother, who was at Ales-
sandria. The appeal had no effect upon
Napoleon, who absolutely refused to see
Jerome until he should announce himself
ready to yield to his elder brothers will.
Eleven days were passed by the young man
with two alternatives before his ~eyes-either
to surrender Internationally Or to keep his
sacred word to his wife and undergo what
disgrace Napoleon might choose to infict
upon him. The biographer opines that the
Jerome Of a later period might not have
hesitated so long, but at this time he was
still much in love, Eventually, he brought
himself, however, to make the required
submission, though, manifestly, with mental