The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

Sir Hudson Lowe IN the streets OF Lon
don. He was now to revisit in manhood
the somber scenes Of his boyhood. while
still another member of the party, the
son of Bertrand, was born in exile, his
mother having boasted at the time that
she had received one visitor without ask
ing permission Of the British government.
The sight of their prison house only
deepened the unpleasant memories it
had left with the one-time prisoners of
st. Helena They went to Longwood as
to a shrine Of their hero, but they found
that it had reverted to its original use
and become a stable again. Horses,
COWS and pigs had been turned into the
Emperors study and bedroom and a
farmer winnowed his grain in the death
chamber.
The grave of Napoleon. however. was
still guarded by his jealous captors, as
il determined that even his ghost should
not escape them When the visitors made
their pious pilgrimage down into Gera-
mum Valley, they found a British SOL
der posted there on a sentry duty that
had never been omitted night or day in
the more than ten years that the captive
had slept beneath the willows.
INGNtIGHllg lut DdTGs uulnsGTlDcQ grave
stones were removed and the coffin was
lifted out of the brick grave. But they
who had thought to see imperial Caesar
dead and turned to clay. drew back in
was opened, and they beheld the EN-
peror, with his Jove-like brow, lying at
ease and lifelike, in the green coat of
the chasseurs Of the guard, the cross of
undimmed luster.
Enthroned Again.
On a December day in lS4O Paris OPEN
ed wide her gates TO receive Napoleon as
If he were the still living conqueror re-
turned from a victorious campaign.
Mounted upon a stately funeral car and
escorted by the aged veterans of the Old
Guard, his body was borne in triumph
under his Arch of the Star and down
the Champs Elysees, across the Place de
la Concorde and over the Seine to the
Hotel des Invalides.
There beneath the gilded dome, the
King and the royal family, in full court
splendor, were awaiting the arrival of the
heroic dead, when chamberlain dramat-
ically entered and thrilled the distin-
ment, 'rEmpereur!" Instantly monarch
and princes, generals statesmen and
courtiers rose to their feet; but one
among them feebly sank into his chair
ninety years. This was Money, COVER
nor Of the Invalides. who was the last
marshal Ra Of the Empire to give up the de-
surged against its walls in 1914.
Louis Philippe did not long retain the
reflected radiance in which he basked
at the funeral ceremony, and he soon
found that the throne he had erected for
the dead Emperor at the Invalides out
shone his own at the Tuileries. But while
Napoleon reigned in glory from the
grave. the living Bonapartes remained
under the ban of the Orleans King the
only member of the family permitted to
breathe the air OF France, inhalIng II
through the bars of a fortress. One day,
however, the prisoner of Ham, with his
mustache shaved on and disguised as a
laborer, sauntered past his triple row of
guards and was free after nearly six
years Incarceration.
The Second Empire.
Soon came the revolution of 1915. which
sent tremor through the European con-
tinent. The thrones Of the Hapsburgs
and the Hohenzollerns rocked; Meter
mich fed Vienna and Louis Philippe de-
canned for England as plain Mr., Smith
Almost the only throne that escaped the
shock was Napoleon's in the Invalides.
A republic was hastily improvised in
France and Louis Napoleon, returning at
forty to the land which had exiled him at
seven, was chosen President by some
100000 votes against 100000 for his op-
ponents. Under the fostering care Of his
administration the idealiZation Of Napol-
con took on new zeal. with Theirs chron-
icling and Hugo singing the grandeur Of
the empire. In four years more the
French were ready to acclaim a live EN-
peror. and the prince President assembled
the throne as Napoleon III.
Radiant with ardor, France once more
had, set her feet in the path OF martial
glory. Paris blaZed in a dazzling bril-
lance while for two and twenty years In
all the lesser Napoleon held the Tuileries, |
where the greater had ruled only fifteen
years
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the mud OF Mount st. Jean, Napoleon III |
sent forth his imperial legions They |
marched and battled from Mexico to the |
Crimea- but only to furl their standards |
forever at Sedan-siXty miles from Wa
terloo-when one day the nephew Of the |
master Of Tilsit became the captive Of |
the son Of Queen Louise. For the third /
time under the reign Of Napoleon the /
Germans pitched their tents IN the |
Champs Elysees and the Uhlans watered !