The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-20
French Imperialists Honor Memory of
 Third Napoleon

French inperialists, although they are now fighting for fla. patrie" in the armies of ttIa. republique'', are yet far from being reconciled to the, present government, and many Of them hope that one of the results of the. war will be the restoration of another Napoleon tosgsi the French throne. To such as these the 2nth of A April is a red letter day. as commem- orating the anniversary of the birth in 1908 of that Charles Louis Ma poIeon Bonaparte, who with the title of Napoleon I'LL wore the imperial crown during the gilded era of the Second Empire. That empire was shattered by the Germans in a war in which Bisrnarck's cunning and von n1oltke's military genius triumphed over the ambition of Napoleon III. to emulate his great uncle.
 Louis Napoleon has played the role of hero and of Villain in scores of biographies. and to some remains the adyenturer and scherning soldier of fortune, while others find in him tine idealistic dreamer whose desire was to worthf1y serve his subjects.
 The supreme figure of the second empire was bern at a time when the first empire, the creation of his iI- lGstrious uncte. had reached the height of it's glory and was on the verge of it's decline. He was the youngest son or Louis Bonaparte, a brother. of Napoleon l., and King of Holland, and of Hortense de Beauhar- nais. He was seven years old when l Waterloo finally and forever ended tense and her son wandered about Euro pc, chieIiy in Germany and Switz- el3and, and finally settled in the lat i tac country. TEe Knowledge Of his l ntorEer's uncoaveJlti 5nal love affairs l e1nL-ittered Napc1co1,s youth. for in | T---.
 CT hs was as4i.y the son If I4,1l::s 1 Bonaparte. Tnts latter, however, a1- ways aecepte l Louis Napoleon as his l 1e s;itimate son..
 By the dea4h Of his cousin. the Duke of Reichstadt, in l 832, Louis Bonaparte family. -Four years later later he made the lustrious attempt | to seduce the garrison at Strassbur and was taken prisoner and shipped off to the United States,
 During his exile on this side of the
 Atlantic and in Switzerland, Germany, I Italy and England, Louis Bonaparte studied many advanced and radical I political theories, and became a pro- lfessed liberal He espoused the cause of the oppressed in many lands, and
 was a. soldier in Italy. He also wrote zI many books and pamphlets on a. wide 1 variety of subjects, including Man
 ue1 of Artillery The Beet Sugar In l dustry,'' t'The Extinction of Pauper- ! ism, '' Church and Stattte,'' s.Ar1ny Reform,i' "The Slave Trade'' and I many others. Six of his years were
 spent in the fortress of Ham, after his foolish and theatrical descent or i Boulogne. in 184O. He escaped and made his way to England, but in 1848
 on the outbreak of the revolution ir
 France, he returned to his native Par
 is and announced his candidacy fo1
 the presidency. He was elected, and
 in 1852 proclaimed himself Emperor
 with the consent of the great ma aJoritJ
 of his subjects
 As the ally of England and TurkeN he waged a successful war on Russia
 and as the ally of Italy he helped de feat the Austrians and achieve Italian
 unity and independence. Hill ill-fa- ted expedition against Mexico brough,
 him into conflict with the United ' States, and he withdrew his soldier.
 and left Maximilian to his fate. IT 1870 he declared war on Prussia, ana his armies were quickly and decisive ly defeated. Louis Napoleon did no
 long survive his empire. and died, ar
 exile in England in 1873. His widow l the Empress Eugenie, still survives