The Washington herald., 1914-10-04
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q disguise, but more perhaps from a d.
sire TO avert wounds to his prfdA than
from fear Of wounds to his person. The
three-cornered hat and gray coat, the
sight Of which once thrilled the breasts
OF Frenchmen and awed the armed hosts
OF the foes OF France. were discarded for
borrowed clothes and he donned the
white cockade Of the Bouroons-
After week Of ignominy, he rode fnta
the town Of Frejus, where, on LANDING
from his Egyptian campaign, he had re-
OF the country from the aIiieS and fSs
Bourbons- But now as he stepped aboard
the British warship Undaunted, he well
coined the nag Of his most hated foe as
4 refuge and q protection from his own
Even as the Emperor was boarding Tn,
Undaunted. the Empress and the kim oi
Rome were being conducted within the
allies had taken away not oniy bJs ern-
pire but his wife and boy as well For
after all Marie Louise was only q trophy
OF victory. hostage which Austria had
son were conveyed out OF France sIans
the same road, by which the army Of ths
sovereigns marched against her husband.
Death of JosephIne.
Death now Joined the allies and ,n-.,-
Forced the battalions Of sorrows thar
were assailing Napoleon on all sides
Josephine had not seen the Emperor
since sLl ne started on his fatal plunge into
the Russian wastes, and she no longer
spoke his name. But while he was
pressing the waves of invaders in tba
valley Of the Seine, she sat. Hstless and
fearful. among her ladies at MalnaIson-
making bandages for the wounded
After the fall Of Paris she received q
call from the Gar, who pledged his 1ro
lection But she was troubled less about
nerself than about cher children. Must
! again see them wandering. and. destI-
tute? she sighed The thought is kill
ing me-" Alexander's kindness aroused
in her the hope that he might be their
couraged him to come again and aTsin 10
paths.
Russian grand dukes and German
even the King OF Prussia brought the
two sons Of Queen Louise to see the wife
OF the victor of Jena and the tyrant of
Ilislt. Only the Emperor of Austria
baked at the suggestion that he pay his
respects to Marie -Louise's fair prede-
cessor: But Josephine said, Why not.
indeed II Is not whom he has de-
throned, but his own daughterr'
Under the patronage Of the allies, NAL
maison became a court again, much to
the scandal Of the Bonapartists. Even
Nine. de Stael, that -bird Of III omen"
teau and Nine. Wsiewska, who had
formed Strange friendship with her
one-ume rival for the caresses of Ma
poleon ana whose son was q favorite
with the Empress, was often in the
throng, that smiled and chartered there
while its master sat with gloomy brow
in the shadows OF Fontainebleau or
paced the narrow bounds OF his prison
island ..--
In the midst of the merry scenes. how
ever, josephine ailed-but II was only A
cold. Her physician ordered her to bed
but she persisted in her anxious atten-
tons to the new masters OF her destiny
and Of her children's. On the day Of her
death she insisted on being dressed In A
beautiful robe de chambre. and we ars
told that when she welcomed her silent
deliverer from a strange and troubled
life she lay in her pretty ribbons and
rose satin. murmuring Of ''Bonaparte'
and 'sElba."s
The body was borne into the village
church OF Rueil where Il rests beside the
altar in a marble tomb erected by her
children. whereon her scuIptured figure
kneels in prayer while across the church
Hortense lies in q tomb which her son,
NAPOLEON III, inscribed to the ''dauEiter
and sister OF Napoleon I" Far away IN
the New World another shrine to the
memory Of Josephine rises by the shore
OF her native MarttniQne, where in the
shade Of palms at Fort de France. the
perial robes with her right hand while
her left rests upon a medallion OF Ma
poleon-
CcOus1ilht slsisH by y.n- MOr.an.,