The Washington herald., 1914-11-22

surroundings or the same family senti'
ments.' She spoke truly, and it Is un.
| fair to expect OF her. who had been sur
rendered like strip Of land TO a con-
| queror whom she had been taught ia
loathe. the wifely devotion Of one who
| pledges herself TO the man OF her free
choice. And although she gave full
credit to Napoleons kindness to her, II
should be remembered for Marie Louise
| that in the four years she sat upon his
throne he was absent from her almost
half the time.
Her unhappy experience filled her with
hatred Of politics and when informed
Of the condemnation Of her political hus-
band to the limbo Of st. Helena, she
only remarked on the weather. Once set
tied at Parma, with her one-eyed count.
her dog. her parrot and ner monkey, she
declared she was absolutely happy
and that the earlier years of her life
seemed but a bad dream
The Heart of Napoleon.
While Metternich had deemed it un-
seemly for the fRther-in-law's court to
go into mourning for the outlawed SON.
in-law; he ordered mourning at the
be nameless and described merely as
the serene consort OF the august sover-
eign Of PARMA" Thereupon the second
husband duly went into mourning for
was within ten days Of maternity. faith
fully attended the funeral service in the
ducal chapel.
When Dr. Antommarchi appeared at
Parma with Napoleon's dying message
to his wife she declined to see him and
asked him to give il to the second hus-
band. But the exile had wished to send
her a still more substantial token OF
his affection and had requested Antom-
march, to place my heart In spirits OF
wine and take IL to my beloved Marie
Louise" Fortunately ror her, Sir Hud-
son Lowe had vigilantly prevented the
escape Of that organ. but DR.. Antom-
march, wished her to demand II from
the grand alliance. She was naturally
and she implored her father to see that
the heart was left in st. Helena, because
II 1t should be brought to Parma II
would give her fresh shock and
besides attract excited crowds OF pill
grims to the town.
The Gagged EaEIet.
When any Of the lesser but living
Bonapartes approached her duchy, Marie
Louise was thrown into a fit Of anxiety
and she ordered them away. In her
alarm lest she might draw upon herself
the suspicion OF the grand alliance and
be dragged again into the hateful tur-
moil of politics, she consented TO the eX-
clusIon of her first born from her duchy
and her home. and In the rapture OF her
love for Neipperg she did not often
go to Vienna to see the child.
For two years at a time rAiglon did
not look upon his mother, and she be-
came TO him a stranger whom he met
and parted from without emotion. His
childhood and boyhood were passed al
most wholly among men. charged to take
every care that he should not moult into
q full-fedged eagle.
But while he silently peered out upon
a world that had seemed to ban him,
musing in the paths OF Schoenbrunn or
rejecting alone in his little log house In
the palace park. the Bonapartists rallied
around his name and sedulously kept
alive his memory in France. when II
was suspected that Gourgaud was com
ing on a mission to the young Napoleon.
Metternich ordered that he should be
turned back from the frontier. Again, a
French emissary tried to open communi-
cation with him by tossing letter into
his passing carriage. but the boys
custodian grabbed 1t so quickly
that he thought the prince had not |
letter declared. 600 subjects await
your return"
Poets struck their Tyres to ''The Son
Of the Man" and, although the Bourbon |
police police raided the Paris shops time and
glasses, snufr boxes, knives, handker-
chiefs, pipes and all manner Of per-
Ional articles bearing rAiglons portrait |
French homes. Even in Vienna, Meter
lich was disturbed by the appearance Of |
gloves, on which the boys likeness had
been stamped, and the police seized
mem. "nlle OHe IdCllOu InuS was IrylnB |
10 thrust a crown upon the duke, an
Jther faction was supposed to be plan
hing his assassination, and Savary sent |
! warning to Metternich that Pozzo di
8orgo was a member of a conspiracy to
murder the heir OF Napoleon.
When the French national spirit had
Iufficiently revived to throw of the Bour-
IONS and the nation was on the eve Of
he revolution Of 1880. the Bonapartists
the Austrian government to free
he captive eaglet and let him fly to the
waiting throne. Many competent Judges
we're convinced that rAiglon needed only