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to appear in France to receive the crown,
but the Hapsburgs dared not consult
their own family interests and challenge
the grand alliance.
1t remained for a woman to break
through the barriers and gain sight
OF the young duke. This was Napoleone
Camerata- the eccentric daughter Of
Elisa naparte, sometime grand duch-
ess OF Tuscany aPd Lucca, and Prin-
TO get a passport for Vienna. where she
appeared in mans attire. Making her
way to the door Of the palace. in spite
OF the police who shadowed her, the
young woman waited there until the duke
appeared when she kissed his hand as
she cried, Who can keep me from sa-
luting my sovereign For that cou-
Of the city. and in spite of the dreams
Of the Bonapartists. not rAiglon but
Louis Philippe OF the House OF Orleans
profited by the revolution and became
the citizen king OF the French.
His Fathers Memory.
At that time the duke was preparing
to enter upon a military career under
the Austrian flag But as he impatient
ly approached the end OF his tutelage,
his teachers sounded many alarms and
apparently were extremely apprehenSiye
about his future. His chief tutor de-
scribed his character as weak and his
education imperfect, speaking of his
want of balance" his 'unbridled pas
sio1s and obstinacy," his crude and dis
tCTiCc IDEAS" and his wild efforts for
liberty and RIGHTEOUSNESS While no
evidence has survived to explain this lat
ter Indictment. II has inspired several
legends. among them one which involes
the duke with Fanny Ellsler. the cele-
brated Viennese dancer. whose dancing
in America seemed so divinely graceful
that Emerson pronounced IL a religion.
The chief tutor did not by any means
make all the entries on the debtor side
-
he conceded his engaging appearance"
his fascinating and often impressive
observations' and all that stamps him
as belonging to a special order"
The duke himself once or twice drop
ped his reticence concerning his inner
thoughts and left us a fieeting view OF
the ambition that glimmered within his
prisoned body. When he was sixteen he
urging him more diligently to study the
FrRnch language. which he had all but
lost. and the duke replied approvingly
to the count, whom he probably never
suspected of being his stepfather: 'It
(French) is the language in which my
father gave the word of command in all
his battles, in which his name was COW
cred with glory and in which he has left
US unparalleled memoirs OF the art OF
war: while to the last he expressed the
wish that 1 should never repudiate the
nation into which I was born" Again
he vowed. the chief aim OF my life
fathers name" On another occasion
he said TO a man in tones of deepest
gratitude, You defended my fathers
honor at a time when all men WED with
have read your Battle OF Waterloo.
and in order to impress its every line
on my memory 1 translated ii twice
into French and Italian
At twenty the duke was removed from
the custody of his teachers. but only 20
be placed under the surveillance Of
group of army officers. Yet the Haps-
burgs appeared to believe that amid all
an eagle. another Napoleon who. at the
head Of the Austrian army. would prove
himself the first soldier in the world. |
His sour old preceptor-in-chief was sure
heir of his fathers fame" and "a pow. |
erful upholder OF the Austrian STATE"
On every hand unbounded hopes we're
professed Of the soaring nights which |
Metternich dared not let him go to |
Prague or leave Vienna for fear the lit !
tie eagle might homeward NY
At court balls his appearance aroused |
and his beautiful face and ready wit ,
men and women alike. AZ
he went to his barracks. the Viennese
stood at their windows TO sce the tall, |
and noblv seated horse
man gaIlop by. and the soldiers broke
The decorum of the drill grouui to greet
him with ringing cheers whenever he
presented himself before them.
His Last and Only Flight.
The young officer displayed so much
zeal and generally such fiery temper
ament in his military duties that he neg
ected to rest and slighted his meals.
His physician counseled prudence and /
warned him that he had spirit Of iron
n body OF crystal. For the youth
lad grown too fast and he had the too
harrow chest Of the Hapsburg, race;
rhe duke himself soon felt his physical
limitations, and exclaimed, II am angry
With this miserable body of mine which
efuses to keep pace with my will"
After an ailing time in bed, when his
physicians failed to detect his tubercular
he went driving on the Pra-
er. 1t was a raw cold day In the spring
Il 1889. and his carriage breaking down.
ie started to walk home but sank faint
lis sick bed he quickly fell a prey to
Week after week he strove for life
Nth rapidly increasing feebleness. Still
fSy pr dS @as come IN
ee him. Afterward when she did visit
Iustria. she tarried with her father at
'rieste and long deferred the remaining
ernic6 visited " the duke and saw what
terrible wreck" he was. he wrote to
he Emperor insisting that Marie Louise
aust hasten to the side Of her son.
'nly then did she awaken TO her ma
part from her old life and from her boy.
The last night came. when the soul Of (
Aiglon beat against the wasted and I
roken bars Of its bodily cage. He lay
! the great frescoed room where. after
he victory OF Wagram, his father had I
ictated terms Of peace TO his grand (
ather and dreamed OF demanding !
aughter Of the Caesars to give him an |