The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-11-18

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AAI In America the word has
III VAI been misused for seemliness In
WAY mentioning the usual heart af-
Il - fairs of royalty, but it Is an ex-
lHfl ri lNI act term of purely German
ltYI hlu l1e genealogical law, and means
J1WW legal and binding marriage that
A does not raise an unroyal wife
0 to royal rank
Now II a false morganatic
marriage is the easiest thing imaginable and a
true one Instantaneous but quite possible,
how shall we sufficiently admire an emperor
who lifts a little countess to be empress beside
him? Add an unstable throne, new in itself.
newly mounted, in sore need of royal alliances;
add the bitter opposition Of his family. the
laugh of the world, the contempt of statesmen,
and the estrangement Of partisans; make the
beloved one foreigner completely unpopular
with his people, and you will have the ee-
ments Of Napoleon HIS heroism in loving
Eugene.
Few kings since Cophetua have loved like
this
Among SO many royal loves that lacked de-
votion 1t shines like a star.
1t begins with gypsy at Madrid. Eugenie's
mother, widow, camarera mayor to the
queen, lived In her own house in the Plaza del
Angel.
One day-Eugenie being thirteen and tom
boy-they refused to take her In the Prado
carriage promenade, which, with the opera,
still remains the common ground where poor.
proud families meet the great ones Of Madrid
as equals. The Countess de Montijo chung to
her carriage and her opera box.
Alone Tomboy Eugene was sliding down
the banster. She slid too strong, banged
against the fy-screen front door, and fell mani
mate A gypsy woman. passing. took the girls
head in her lap and brought her to. Then she
looked attentively at her and said:
THE senorita was born under the open sky.
the night Of battle
What" exclaimed the countess, returned
with the carriage. She was struck by the
truth of the words Thirteen years ago, at
Granada, an earthquake had forced them to
+, camp a night in the garden, and Eugenie was
there prematurely born.
what will be her future?" asked the super
stitious mother.
"She will be queen" seid the gypsy.
The prediction was bold, and beauty only
could lift the thirteen-yearold girl to Its
realization; but beauty had already done much
for that family.
So dreamed the mother. She herself had
been a really poor girl. daughter Of British
subject who had failed in business In Malaga
His name was Kirkpatrick, and he had long
been American vice-consul. He had married
one Of two beautiful sisters yet still poorer
see how hereditary beauty will force its way.
through four generations, from its unadorned
self to throne
The first was poor Spanish girl, Gallegros.
whose sole possession was her beauty. Gre
vigne French wine merchant Of Malaga, mar
ried her and had two lovely daughters; and
two foreign consuls, French de Lesseps and
Scotch Kirkpatrick lifted them by marriage to
the first rounds OF the social ladder. From the
De Lesseps alliance came the grand Francois"
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gave him daughter OF such-rare charms that
a Spanish grandee. with place at court
and of considerable family. married her for
love.
He was a duke. a MARQUIS viscount and
a baron but the title by which he had been
known to the world was Count de Montjo.
He had two daughters fairer yet than mother,
grandmother or greatgrandmother and he
died Eugene was one. her sister Pacca was
the other.
On the thirteenyear-old girl the gypsy's pre-
diction made formative impression. Con-
Iirming It, as she grew up she saw her elder
sister Pacca maria Francisca) make an I'M
,precedented match even In that family. Pacca
caught the rich and mighty Duke Of Alva
Higher than the Duke Of Alva could only be a
king.
Eugene, growing up. refused brilliant Span
fish OFFERS first the Duke of Ossuna, then the
T1Cn ana uduubOme youuB Duho VI oeStO.
Sesto in truth inspired her with "a certain
sympathy and admiration. He was 80 attrac-
tive!" But It was not love. Deep in her heart
she loved a dream prince, the unknown Of the
gypsy, endowed by her girls fancy with thou
sand charming attributes She smiled at the
absurdity Of T.. Where could such prince bef
Yet she held OF from all other suitors
When her mother took her to Paris her
heart leaped at an unexpected premonition
The handsome, dark-browed. careworn man,
still young. who, AZ French president, received
at the Elysee became romantic figure IN her
eyes Eugene wished to attend presidential
reception Her mother hesitated. It would
make them ridiculous with the widowed smart
set
but my father was an ofncer Of the great
Napoleon" said Eugenie. and she had her way.
TIE princeprssidsnt weighed down with the