Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-06-08
Queen Louisa Of Prussia came to TIL
sit. Baron Marriott saws: s53l$


each other cordially. She had insulted
him In many proclamation and he had
given 1t back in his bulletins. Yet their
interview showed no traces OF their mu-
tual hatred, Napoleon was respectful and
attentive. the queen gracious and disposed
to captivate her former enemy
The figure cut BY Louisa's royal
spouse at this time was most pitiful.
In the Memoirs Of Napoleon. = by the
Duchess D'Abrantes, we read:
The king OF Prussia was Of 60 little ac-
count In these conferences that nothing
more was said OF him than II he were at
Berlin. To see king, for In fact he was
q king, following his conqueror with an
eye Of apprehension, fearing to speak.
walking always behind the other two SOW
ereigns. and thus by his own act placing
himself in subordinate rank. must al
ways be distressing.
The duchess was the wife Of Junot,
one Of Napoleon's generals, and re-
counts the story Of Tilsit as given her
by eyewitnesses.
Long before Friedland and Tilsit Ma
p0leon had declared that he would de-
throne Frederick Of Prussia. At st.
Helena he said:
Where erred most fatally was at Til
sit. I ought TO have dethroned the king
OF Prussia. I hesitated moment. I was
sure Alexander would not have opposed
1t. providing I had not taken the kings
dominions for myself. might have de-
clared that the house Of Hohenxollern had
ceased to reign.
He added that he would have done
so had there been scion OF the branch
Of Frederick the Great at hand. APP
ropos Of the despoliation Of Prussia,
sanctioned by the treaty at Tilsit, the
Duchess D'Abrantes quotes an inter
esting morsel from the lips OF Alexan-
der, whom she met In Paris In 1914.
Said the car: 3s.5 5g#i
the raft quite determined to sustain my
dignity In my department toward the
man whose treatment OF the king OF Prus-
sia was. In my opinion, violently unjust.
intended to do much for my unfortunate
friend (Frederick} and much also Tor my
own people. but scarcely had Seen Napo-
leon before I was overcome.
Alas, neither the cars sympathy nor
the beautiful queens graciousness
awaited to save the Prussian realm
from the greed Of Napoleon.
| But what the sword took from Louisa
and Frederick In 1907 the sword gave
back in 1914. when the allies deposed
/ Napoleon from his throne IN Paris.
/ Among the troops that marched into
/ Paris at that time was son Of King
Frederick and Queen Louisa, q youth
Of seventeen, who won the Iron Cross
/ for yalor. Again In 1870 that boy
j grown to be a gray haired king, entered
Paris at the head Of conquerine
army, dethroning Napoleon's nephew
Napoleon Ill, and was crowned VIII
liam l., emperor Of Germany, at Yer
sailles. So the humiliation at Tilsi
was avenged.
A Frank Renaissance.
It has been said that at Tilsit TIL,
car and Napoleon divided the master!
OF Europe between themselves. Napo
leon seems to have been overjoyed a
the friendly alliance he made with TIL
car. He wrote at the time to hi
brother Joseph, 1--WE lived as intimat
friends. 2 This is not the language o
d boaster, but of a man promoted an,
tends to show that Napoleon felt tina
he had reached his goal by an allianc
with the Russian autocrat IT foun
myself debating laws. having emperor
and kings pay me court, /" he afterwar
said. On the other hand this versatil
Corsican sometimes laughed in hi
sleeve at the Aemperors and kings b
had hobnobbed with at Tilsit In talk
! with Napoleon at st. Helena one Of th
j, chroniclers records this frank rem
s niscence: ss, 81
< When, said Napoleon, 81 was at ills
s with the Emperor Alexander and the kin
Z of Prussia, was the most ignorant Of til
three In military affairs. These two 80,
ereigns especially the king Of Prussi,
o 4 were completely au fait as to the numbe
8 Of buttons there ought to be in front OF
jacket, how many behind and the mannt
: in which the skirts ought to be cut. Nj
s q tailor In the army knew better thu
d King Frederick how many measures
3 cloth II took to make q jacket In fact
continued he, laughing, II was nobody
comparison with them. They continual
II tormented me about matters belonging
Il tailors, of which was entirely ignoran
4 although. In order not to affront them,
answered Just as gravely as il the fate
Q an army depended upon the cut of
e Jacket. When went to see the king
I. Prussia, instead Of q library found tn:
! he had a large room. like an arsenal, fu
= nished with shelves and pegs. on wfie
d were hung fifty or sixty Jackets Of difre
L ent patterns. Every day he changed b
4 fashion and put on q INHERENT one. F
: attached more Importance to this tia
vi was necessary for the salvation Of KIM
{, dom"
,, Three treaties resulted from Erie,
lando between France and Russi
published at the time; one betwee
France and Prussia, also made publ
and third, long kept secret, betwee
Russia and France This last wi
practically an offensive and defensiy
alliance OF the two powers again
England, Austria and Turkey. "A rem
nant of his realm was left to the Pru
sian king out Of regard for the wishs
Of Alexander. Napoleon was blame
by the liberals of Europe for not +
Z constituting the kingdom Of Polan
Instead Of that he created the gran
] duchy OF Warsaw In favor Of his o.
J ally, the king Of Saxony, whose pred
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