The Washington herald., 1914-10-25

| say in the end he hearkened to his duty
to the Emperor and started for France,
but failing to make his way through the
military lines OF the allies, he 1eturned
/ to the palace OF his father-in-law, at
Bamberg. in Germany. One day as he
stood by a window in the palace and
watched the Russian troops file by In
their march to overwhelm his old COM
mander. he suddenly pitched forward and
was hurled to his death. But whether he
had fallen in a swoon or had leaped from
the window no one could know.
Another of the old mArshals who Of
fered his sword was spurned by the En-
peror. When King Murat saw that the
monarchs of Vienna had no idea OF re-
warding his betrayal Of Napoleon by
leaving him on the throne Of Naples, he
precipitately rushed to arms and pro-
claimed himself King Of all Italy. But
he was readily overthrown in the field.
Driven out OF the country. he came TO
France. but Napoleon forbade him to sp-
pear in Paris.
A New NaPOIeOnF
Amid all the rapid changes which the
men who hocked about him were un-
dergoing, the Emperor announced that
he, too, had changed. and he foreswore
allegiance to the old Napoleon in these
terms: We do not intend to repeat the
past 1 have dwelt a year in the island
Of Elba, and there, as in q tomb, have
heard the voice of posterity." Laying
aside the sword and taking an olive
branch in his no longer mailed fist, he
renounced his dream OF conquest and
declared to the allied nations who had
denounced him as an outlaw that he &C
cepted finally and forever the narrow
France
At the same time he presented himself
before the French as a reformed and re-
generated despot, who had become again
the son of the Revolution. TT is not
peace alone that l wish to bestow on
France" he said in humble contrition,
but but l wish a also TO give her her liberty; ie
raigned him as the modern Nero, and
then had hid himself in a distant prov
ince. But the Emperor sent for him
and commissioned him to draw up free
When Napoleon read an expression OF |
incredulity in the faces Of those who |
So fs bs sha do
it tomorrow. The liberty of the press! !
Why should l fear It now? After what |
the journalists have said in the past |
year they can have nothing more to say |
against me, but something still remains |
to be said about my adversaries."
The Hardest blow.
France imperatively required peace |
abroad as well as freedom at home. Ex-
hausted by twenty-five years of foreign
and domestic strife, sne wanted no more
wars. The Emperor had seen from the
outset that il he could induce the En-
press to return with the King of Rome
he would not only crafty the longings
of husband and a father, but also
join him, it would be visible proof to
the country that Austria at least had
his throne.
only want you and our child" he plead
ed day, after day, week after week.
Not only did the Empress make no re-
ply, but she indifferently submitted the
love letters 10 her new mas
ters, the allied sovereigns at Vienna.
Fearing that the allies in their rage
might refuse her the Duchy Of Parma
avow any knowledge Of or sympathy
with the flight from Elba. That her son
might not, like his father, grow up to
be the disturber Of monarchs, she con-
sented to leave him in lifelong captiv-
lty with his grandfather. the Emperor Of
Austria, and that he might never become
a sovereign she signed away his inner
itance to her little duchy.
The iIi-starred boys very name was
taken from him and he was no longer
called Napoleon, but Francis. To re-
move the IOur-year-OlQ
French influences Mime. Montesquieu, his
governess, was sent back to France,
leaving him forlorn and sorrowing for
his Mama Quiou." When the one re-
Meneval, was leaving Vienna the sad
laced child whispered in his ear the last
message poor L'Aigfon ever was to have
N. Meva," he nsped. You viii tell him
hat am still very fond Of him."
1t was painful enough to Napoleon
when he saw, his wife and his son sep !
arated from him by the exigencies and {
asperities Of international politics. But
he knew that he had won Marie Louise
With his sword and he might have con- | I
'egsin her on the battlefield. had he not
earned that already another had usurped
lis place by her side. Count Neipperg, /
he gallant chamberlin, chosen for her by {
ull well in the task they gave him to do, !
md her infatuation for him was COM
,lete, So keenly did her husband feel &
he ignominy Of this humiliation that he /
lever even at St Helena, admitted a
OF the liason. T
The ConqueSt of Vienna.
The efforts of the Emperor to estab- !
Yere met on every hand with scornful
ebuffs. He had expected on arriving in y
'aris to find the congress of Vienna ad-
burned and the monarchs and states
1en dispersed. Unfortunately for him, It 9
Tas still in session when he appeared like
specter at the feast.
After a long and ugly wrangle, the 2
overs had most opportunity came to an 9
greement on the very eve of the flight
rom EIba and completed the distribution =
Z the spoils of their conquest. The Gar 7
insisted and obtained the larger part Of
russian Poland which Napoleon had =
Trested from Frederick William. In re- 2
urn, Prussia was permitted to expand :
er borders TO the banks Of the Rhine 2
nnrllOn
ny, that kingdom being dismembered as I
punishment for its adherance TO the I
Tapoleonic cause in the War Of 1913.
France was left in possession Of only
few acres of conquered land and the
ictures and statues she had taken in h