The Washington herald., 1914-11-29

is the grandson of that Jerome Napoleon
who was born to Betsy Paterson while
she was in England vainly trying TO re-
Join her bridegroom, from whom the Em'
peror had separated her; Happily toi
him, however, he pretends to no othei
sovereignty than that with which every
American citizen is unalienably en-
dowed.
This American and the child of the
brussels pretender are the only malC
Bonapar OF the fourth generation, and
to them alone is entrusted the perpeiu'
alton OF a name at which the world grew
pale in other days. For nature all but
Joined the allied monarchs in their re-
solve to eNterminate the Corsican imper'
ial race.
Lucien's latest male descendant. Prince
Roland Bonaparte. married the richly
lowered daughter OF that one-timc wait
er. NJ Blanc, whose croupiers rsked In
for him a harvest Of gold from his gam
ing tables at Monte Carlo. But no son
was born of that golden alliance between
the purple and the green, and the only
child is the wife OF Prince George OF
Greece. the oldest brother Of King Con-
stantine
Josephine Avenged.
History has not been content to set al
nauGht all Of Napoleon's dynastic am
billions but ii has also visited with bit
ing irony his sacrifice of Josephine on
the altar of that vain ambition. Al
though he put away his wife that the
imperial succession might be established
son of Marie Louise but for q grandson
of his divorced Empress to revive his
dynasty and wear his crown.
The grandchildren of Josephine mount
ed no less than four thrones, for besides
Napoleon Ill, a daughter of Prince Eu-
gene Beauharnais married a BraganZa
and became an Empress OF Brazil; a son
welded the Queen of Portugal, and be
came the royal consort Of that sovereign.
while another became the husband Of a
sister OF the Gar Nicholas. But the
strangest prank that fortune played was
the marriage of a daughter of Eugene
Oscar, son OF Bernadotte and of Ma
poleon's early sweetheart. Desiree Clary.
AS the wife of Oscar this princess sat
on the throne OF Sweden as Queen Jose
phine and gave daughter to the royal
house Of Denmark. Thus the descend
ants Of the Creole Empress hold today
two Of the thrones Of Scandinavia.
At the InvaIides.
Although no drop of Bonaparte blood
/ still is enthroned under the golden
dome of the Invalides. That vast SOL
diers' home has lost the purpose to which
Louis XIV dedicated 1t, when he opened
II to the wrecks Of his battles, and has
become a great shrine of war. whose
chief deity is the martial Emperor Of the
rench-
Ihe magnificent tomb of Napoleon is in
one Of the two chapels of the immense
pile. which Is mainly given over to the
exhibition halls Of a museum, crowded
with the jumbled relics of ages of war
fare. But always the visitors to the mu-
scum throng thickest about some Napol-
comic souvenir. The rude funeral car
which bore him to his st. Helena grave,
a gift from Queen Victoria; a simple
wooden settee, which was the favorite
seat of the throneless monarch in his
exile; the walking stick which supported
him who once had carried the weight OF
empire on his shoulders; the rough.
frightfully rough, draft Of his appeal to
the prince regent before going aboard the
Bellerophon, and other of his undeciph-
cradle scrawlings; the writing table upon
which he poured out his dreams while
hungry lieutenant at Auxonne: his camp
bed, camp desk and camp book, and the
whip and sword and gun OF the King OF
Rome. But the gray overcoat the green
undercoat. the white breeches and the
black chapeau Of the conquerer draw the
curious closest and hold them longest. .
In the chapel Of st. Louis a silvery
bell tinkles the half hours among the
tombs in the Aisle Of the Brave, where
the soldiers Of France sleep in a time
less eternity. There lie Marshals Bes-