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mer day lit up the big, empty room, and he felt himself sinking with no hand but a valet's to grasp. It was not thus that he had come into the world. Then the dig nitar.es of an empire crowded about tho bed; Paris anxiously listened for the 100 guns of the Invalides and all Europe hardened to his birth cry. Now he was signing away his poor, fruitless life in a deserted chamber.
 The valet called a member of the duke's staff and a physician. But they hesi- tated to break in upon Marie Louise's sleep. The mother was not summoned until her boys lips were silent and his eyes fixed. Kneeling by his bedside at the administration of the sacrament of ex- treme unction, she rose only when told that rAiglon had taken flight and was free at last. She had hardly more than gone when the palace crowd began to stream into the chamber and seize upon souvenirs of the dead. In an hour they had almost stripped his room, carrying off his sticks and whips and ruthlessly shipping hs yellow curls until his head was shorn of most of it's hair.
 Fate of the B0napartes
 When death thus claimed the son of Marie Louise it brought a strange re- venge to the memory of the divorced Jos ephine. For now her grandson. Louis Ma poleon, the. only surviving son of Hor- tense, became the heir to the overturned throne of the empire and the hope of the prescribed and scattered Bonapartes.
 Joseph. as the oldest of Napoleon's s brothers. but whose two children were girls, and therefore not in the line ol succession, had been an exile in America 17 years. when, at the passing of rAiglon. he returned to Europe and from England sought to guide the course of the fam fly As Count Survilliers, Joseph had been living on a pretty country estate at Bordentown, N. J. When he went to the United States he had hoped that all the Bonapartes would follow him and es- taDllsh themselves In the new world But they had preferred to finger within the shadow of their former grandeur. though treated as paroled prisoners and forbid den to change their residences without perm ssion. .
 Even Queen Julie Clcry did not join her husband in New Jersey. It re- mained for Quaker maiden of Phil adelphia to console his hanishnient and present him with a daughter This child ol King of Spain was recognized and pensioned by the second empire but after 1t fell at Sedan she went to work like any American woman and earner her living by teaching music until her death. at Richfield Springs N. Y., in 1891.
 Rome, under the magnamimous hos pitality of Plus VII, rather than the rree republic of the west. became the raI1ying point of the Bonapartes. For thither the mother of the dethroned Kings went with Cardinal Feseh so place herself under the protection oi the pore whom her son had dethronad ane held captive for many years. Ir Rome Mime. Mere not only had her brother, the cardinal hut Lucien and Pauline also made their home in the
 Eternal City.
 With his Wurtemberger princess Queen Catherine. Jerome found refuge
 under the Austrian flag. at Triesttn
 where. with Elisa and Caroline, a col ony of Bonapartes was established. 7 Louis was permitted to live at Flor
 erce. but alone and without wife or children. For Hortense chose to live apart from her uncongenial mate and she made a home for herself and her two sons on the banks of Lake Con- [ stance in Switzerland.
 At the fall of Napoleon Mime. Mere once more became the head of the fam fly. Tn prosperity her children had smiled at the prudent counsels of this simple. thrifty woman. who. by patch ing and scrut bing. had reared them ir poverty. But when diversity came they turned to her again and placed them SC Ives under her stern maternal rule She had saved more than any of them
 ways foretoid. and they no longer were
 ashamed of her parsimony She did nn' relax her grip on her purscstrings
 however. but carefully measured out her bounty to them. in response to tho ] Opportunities of the one-time Kingi and QueenB.
 ! To Napoleon she offered all she had , tccause she said she owed ft all ts him. What does 1t matter?" she ar : eued. "When I shall have nothing left .shall take my stick and go ahou' begging aims for Napoleon's mother. the powers for clemency. he died in hii
 rriron island. she just as resolute', held her fortune in trust for his son rAig1on.
 , Mime. Mere was q when called t, , raourn the death of the Emperor and !, 1t was her sorrowful fortune to sur , xive many who were dear to her. He. Y eaughter Elisa. the former Grant , Duchess of Tuscany. died the year be-
 fcre. and her daughter Pauline, tn, , Princess Borghese. tur years aftel 1 Napoleon. Death next claimed rAiglon r he~ heir. the rose and expectancy o , her old age. and then Saveria. hel WbS -AiuC NtiA'diitOh, NhO Ai PidiHC' t days had shared the household labor: . at Ajaccio was taken from her.
 , As tnbending before the frowns as sh' , had been before the smiles of fortune e sustained by her maternal pride in hay { ing given to the world master. Mme |; Mere at so was stjll an active and ia l mil'ar figure Tn the streets and parks ant F churches of Rome. where she unfailingl! I commended the homage of all. Whi''
 yet in remarkably vigorous health sh' was walking one day In the garden O the Villa Bor~hese. attended by Lucien' y dauvhter Charlotte. when she tripped an, r broke her hip. Her chudren hastened t the stricken mother from their several re r treats. and the governments grew uneas! at the sight of 70 many Bonapartes to . gether.
 ], But for s'x years mora she tarried. ,, cripple in a world of graves. Lying a : full length on a mattress In her carriae 2
 she persisted for time In driving abou Q tho noble city. At home in her old pa!as 10 on the Corso, which is still marke