The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-11
81 "a AIARoUisE die FoNTENoY.

| NY expectations that Bonapartiym
~ IN france has been strengthened
a oy the recent marriage OF Prince
victor Napoleon TO Princess Gle
nentine OF Belgium were disposed OF
| in rather signal fashion. on the ami
| versary tho other day OF tho death OF
Napoleon III. The date has been always
until now oommemorated by serv!ce
at the Church OF ST. Augustine, q;
| Paris, where the attendance on these
| occasions has dwindled each year.
| at the recent memorial service there
were less than hundred persons
! present, all told and on realizing the
| paucity Of the attendance, the police
! customarily stationed at the entrance
of the sacred edifcc TO preserve order
| withdrew. Those Bonapart!sts who put
| In an appearance were, OF course, array
J ed In black. and wore punches OF VIC
| lets. But their attitude and looks gave
! but little evidence of regret for the
| imperial dead, since, when they cmerg-
| cd passers-by. who were ignorant OF
| the nature of the ceremony, and assum-
| ed that 1t was funeral party. com
mcnted on the chcerfulness and even
! gaioty Of the mourncrs.
! In short, the ceremony has served to
| show how utterly dead Is the cause or
! Bona1art!sm in France. and to what
extent Napoleon III. has been forgotten
( by the people over whom he reigncd
| for nineteen years, during which period
| Paris was the centre of the political
gravity Of the civilized world. Yet had
! he not succumbed in 1873 TO the fatal
dose OF choral. which, despite his pro-
tests, Was administered 10 him by I'm
: preSs Eugene, acting in obedience to
/ the instructions OF Sir William Ciu.l. q
| EonaDartst restoration would in all
probability have taken place two
months later March 20 having been
! fixed for the date. In fact Il was In
order TO free himself from the cruel
| physical fortunes and agonizing pains
| which had placed him almost entirely
| hors dc combat at the battle OF Sedan,
| ing it, and to put himself i'll thorough
! physical shape and energy for another
coup d'etat. that he submitted himself
TO the aurgicai operation at chisle-
hurst which would have proved per-
| fectly successful, had it not been for
that fatal dose OF chloral
All arrangements had been made for
| the ton Napoleon was to have
! left England secretly to have landed
at Ostend and to have made his way
1 by Cologne. Basic, and Nyon, In Switxcr-
land. entering France by Annccy, where
| a regiment of cavalry was stationed.
| .
| GERS who were devoted 10 the Bona
] partist cause. From there lie was to
| make his way TO Lyons. where the
| garrison, and the entire military dis
| trict and city. were commanded by
| General Bourbaki, an ardent Bonapar-
| fist, and whose sister. Nine. lie Breton.
| was the most faithful and devoted of
! all the ladies In waiting Of Empress
| flight from Paris. IT was anticipat cd
that the march from Lyons to Paris
/ would be quite as triunphal as that of
/ Napoleon 7. after his return from Eliza
and arrangements had been made that
the train which each day conveyed the
] members of the Senate and of the
! Chamber of Deputies from Paris to
| Versailles, where they then held their
mel of st. Cloud. where all tie legisIa-
tors were to be made prisoners.
Even Cabinet had been organized
! lice, and afterwards we'll known in this
| country IS Il frequent visitor, was 10
have been Minister of the Interior.
Of War and General F'lcury Military
Governor Of Paris. Fifty generals Of
1.-THE French army had pledged Thorn
selves to tho conspiracy. which was
German ambassadors, in Paris, name
! IS. Prince Orloff and Count Arnim -
! tho later acting in the matter contrary
! TO the instructions OF Prince Bismarck.
Dull III accordancc with those or En-
press Augusta and of all tho social
cd Court Party" at Berlin. Count
! 1eust in his Memoirs rela tcs that III
| those days although no longer Chanccl-
| Tor, but ambassador in England, he was
1 repeatedly consulted by Emperor Fran
els Joseph as to what course 1t would
be We'll to adopt in the cventuality OF a
| RESTORATION; nnd the latter was reSarl-
cd with so much favor In France and
i abroad that 1t would doubtless have
proved auccessful, had 1t not been for
that fatoful dose Of choral when Cow
| ing to tho youth at that epoch of the
/ Prince Imperial3 rendered any lnon-
i archical coup impractlcablc. by the