New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-06

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Saint George, she ntimated that she could not
accept it unless he offered the distinction to her
husband Alexander proceeded to do this, apprec1-
ating the generosity with which throughout ner
married lie she endeaVOred 10 PloCcoC IHo PiO''oN
of her consOrt.
A. somewhat malignant and misleading picture OF
this unfortunate monarch but very atTractlve anu
faithful portrayal of Queen Marie, will be found IN
A1Dhonse Daudet's novel, THE Kings IN Exile,
where Francis and Marie figure as the King and
Queen of lllyr1a IT.,
beth was passionately fond OF horses, kept 1oI d
number of years a racing stable at ParlS, WleIe He
coors were registered on the turf under tne nG ol
Count Isola" This was, however, during the NE
time of her husband. She has long since gwen up
racing and devOtes her leisure and nuch OF neI
spare money to the maintenance OF SHOP IN FaIls
for the sale of articles manufactured by the poverty
stricken peasantry of Calabra and OF other provinces
once subject to her scepter Everything reallzed py
this enterprise is sent to Italy, to be USED LOT the
relief of her former heges. AS she IS cmidieSS anu
widowed the only motive of the charity to Wh1ch
she is thus devoting her last years IS kindly re-
membrane for the people of the land OF her adoption
Empress Eugenie's Bravery
EMPRESS EUGENE has sometimes been de-
IL scribed wanting IN courage, ana II IS uISGu
against her that if she had turned deaf ear 10 the
y no means disinterested representations OF Pr1Ce
Metternich and Count Nigra, and had remained at
the Tuleries, or at any rate IN Par1s' instead o5
the throne, if not for her husband, anyhow IoI
her son. and have averted the loss OF Lorraine ana
possibly of Alsace. The advice OF the two Am
bassadors prompted, OF course by the reallzIt-
ton that once the Empire was overthroWn thelr
respective sovereigns would be liberated 1PSO tdCto
from the engagements they had secretly contracted
toward Napoleon Ill, which were OF nature TO
embroil them with victorious Germany
Inexct.se for Eugene may be argued that she had
been deserted by all her household, especially by the
masculine dgnitares OF her court and that she was
urged to seek safety in flight by those whom she be
lieVed perhaps foolishly, to be her most d1s1nter
ested advisers and her most trusted and devoted
friends 1t is certain that on several other occasions
she DISPLAYED considerable personal bravery.
Thus on the night of the memorable attempt to
assassinate Napoleon Ill. IN Paris by means OF
bombs an outrage which resulted IN the more or
less serious injury of at least thirty people, the En-
peror himself having his face slightly cut by piece
of glass and the carriage in which he and the En-
press were sitting completely wrecked, she sat
throughout the greater part OF the subsequent per
Torrance at the opera by her husbands side, dis
PLAYING the utmost calmness and fort1tude- Indeed,
it was not until the performance was over and her
return to the Tuieres that she was able to remove
her dress, which stained with the Dlood OF the
victims of the explosion
Eugene is also record as having visited the
various cholera wards of the hospitals III Paris,
Amens and other cities where this ASlat1C epidemic
was raging in 1905 and 1900, taking consolation
and sympathy to the sick and dying, and encourage
ment and imperial recognition to the MUSICIANS and
nurses engaged in caring tor those stricken. ana
though so proud of her beauty, which was her prn-
cpal asset, she did not even hesitate during the
memorable smallpox epidemic to VISIT the smaliPoN
wards of the hospitals order to sustain the droop
ing spirits of the doctors and attendants.
On another OCCASION she may be said to have pro-
tected her husband from serious injury If not worse
bv an Infatuated bull. The episode took place some
three wears before the overthrow OF the Empire, IN
the neighborhood of BiarritZ. Napoleon and
Eugene we're out walking, when Nero the spaniel
(Which by the by, figures beside the Prince Imperial
in Carpeaux famous statue of their i'll fated SOM
10 hat Iyerp ora ZfDO IN a