The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-16
TEACHES SCHOOL
On SMALL SALARY
Modest Work Of Granddaughter
Of First Emperor
Napoleon.
FATHER WAS CoMTE DE LEON
Another Nun Of Royal Birth at
Convent OF St.
Cecilia

DY LA MARaUIsE DE FoNTENOf.
" rNDIR the name OF Charlotte
Mesnard, q perfectly authentic
NJ granddaughter of the first En-
peror Napoleon Is earning with
difficulty her livelihood as teacher
at salary OF 5000 q year. IN one
or the suburbs OF Paris She is the
daughter of that extraordinary crea.
ture who was created by MS ihtief
and whom tho Emperor at ono mo
ment proposed to proclaim as MS hcif
to tho throne of France
Tho late Comte dc Icons mother
was woman OF noble p,r.n, h aahn
Louise Eleanor I'd; de IA that Famous m
schoolmistress, Nine. Campan. from
whom Queen Hortense, Stephanle 90
Beauharnais, afterwards Grand Ducn-
ess Of Baden: the Duchesse d Abrantes'
Caroline Bonaparte and others, recelV-
ed their education; Nine. Campan hay,
ing been in her time. the principal
chambermaid and dresser OF Queen
Marie Antoinette.
Eleanor la Plaisne, IN 1919. maae
an unfortunate marriage with Cap
tain Jean Revel, who not long after
wards was turned out Of tho army
for dishonesty and then arrested and
sent to jail for forgery.
destitute, turned to her schoolmatc.
Caroline Bonapartc. who had mean
while married Joachim Murat. and en-
tered her service as reader. There
she attracted the attention OF tho
thanks to imperial influence. to secure
a divorce from her husband. This d.
yorce was pronounced on April 20.
1906. and In the following December
she gave birth to son. OF whom
Emperor Napoleon was the father.
The birth OF this boy may be said
to have influenced the entire life of
the Emperor: for 1t showed him that.
although his marriage with Empress
Josephine was doomed to remain child
to the throne If he married some one
else. In fact, the birth of the boy
gave him SO much delight that he
thought at one moment of passing the
child off as the offspring of Jose
phinc. 1t was only when the lat ter
refused to lend herself to such fraud
upon the French nation that Napoleon
decided upon divorcing her. and mar
ried Archduchess Marie Louise.
While. the. Emperor remained fond
mother waned. True. he bestowed
upon her an annuity OF 10000 francs
a year. inscribed on the Grand Livre
de France" and furnished her with q
house in the Rue de la Victoire and
other resources. but he declined to SEQ
her again, and caused her to marry
a young officer of the name OF Baron
Angler de la Sauzaye, who afterwards
met with his death during the Spanish
campaign.
Els widow married again. for the
third time. in 1914, the Comte Charles
Won Luxburg. chant erlain OF the King
of Bavaria and brother Of the Bava-
Ran envoy. in Paris. and she died in
after having been repeatedly sued by
her son. Count de Leon, in his futile
efforts to extort money from her.
Brought up in the first place by his
grandmother. old Mime. Letitia Bona
parte known as MADAME Mere" Loon
was a source OF perpetual trouble and
family. The mother Of the Emperor
ended by disowning him; and In 1892.
at the age OF twenty-five he turned up
of the money settled on him in his
early childhood by his father, and
after securing commission in tho
National Guard. was dismissed for
gross characterization. Involved In one
scrape after another. he endeavored
with more or less success to extort
money. not only from every member
OF the House OF Bonaparte then in
existence E; but even from the reign
F Ing ho use OF orleans; while Cardinal
Napoleon 11I,) repeatedly advanced
funds to extricate him from Insnvoru
scrapes. This did not prevent Mn
IRON challenging Louis Napoleon to
ia., uuel, ana when he found his cartel
Ignored ne went over to London and
attempted to take the pretender,s life
being arrested In connection tbere'
WIN, though subsequently released nm
LOUIS Napoleon's refus to prosecute.
unbalanced s1'i'
On the overthrow OF tho Orleans
dature for tho national Legislature, in
2, manifesto IN which he described
r lu,itaelF as The Citizen Leon. ex-
president of the Peace Society, to the the
French people. sAs
When the empire was proclaimed
Leon LIE. n, obtained from Napoleon iii.
annuity Of 5000 francs ~ a year ar aa nd
later on grant of $4,000 by way
OF a compromise for the sum which
Ihe nrst Napoleon had bequeathed to
him In his Wall mado at st. He.
estate. Napoleon III. paid his debt debis
on no less thanN six different occa,
sions. but finally declined to my
anything more to do With him; an
from IRON that ttme forth the count d.
d Sicen ms Time between publishing RI
SUITS Tor money against the civil list
ana against the national treasury. On
the deqth of the Emperor in 1918 his
allowance Of 5000 francs ceased and
he died In the utmost penury. at Pon-
toise, In 1881, leaving a widow. SON
and daughter, entirely without
means. 's'Aou'
The mother secured place rs
companion to an old lady, who caused
the daughter. to be. trained for APO DO
isition as teacher In the elementarv
schools while the son. after an eX,
| tremely adventurous career in Soutl,
America and in this country, where
he gained notoriety rather than fame
by the financial scrapes in which he
became involved. at st, Louis. Brook.
lyn. Chicago and other cities, is now
working as a drummer In the south
Of France and has presented claim
Upon the Council OF State at Paris
for tho annuity Of 10000 francs. To-
which his grandmother. who died n,
Countess Luxburg, had been inscribed
by Napoleon I. on the Myre de France
Nun of Royal birth.
In mentioning the other day thu
death Of the widow of eX-Kilfg MiGue
Of Portugal at the convent Of st, Ceci
liza. at Ryde, ON the Isle Of Wight, q
which she was lady prioress,s reference
was omitted to tho fact that this es
| Establishment includes another nun a.