The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-07-16
"QUEEN OF SORROWS"
PASSES QUIETLY AWAY
For so Years Widow of Napoleon iii.
Had Prayed for Death-Buried
Beside Son and Husband.

Madrid, July 15.-The former En-
press Eugene of France died here
Sunday morning.
Death occurred from acute intes-
tinal inflammation. She passed away
quietly in the presence only Of her
lady in waiting. Her nephew, the
Duke of Alba, at whose residence she
died, was in France and the other
members of the family were absent.
Full imperial honors will be accorded
at her funeral.
Eugene Marie de Montijo, former
empress of France, was born in Gran
ada, Andalusia, Spain, May 5, 1862.
She was the second daughter of Count
Manuel Fernandez de Montijo, Duke
of Peneranda and Manuela Kirkpat-
rick Of Closburn, Dumfrieshire, Scot
land. Her maternal grandfather was
William Kirkpatrick, United States
consul at Malaga, who was a native
of Scotland but a naturalized Amer
ican.
Weds Napoleon III.
The former empress was educated in
France, Spain and England and trav-
eled extensively with her mother on
the European continent. She met her
husband, Emperor Napoleon III, first
in 1851 and married him January 80,
1853. Prince Napoleon, her only son,
who was the Prince Imperial, was
born March 16, 1856.
The empress had great influence
over her husband and on several oc-
casions acted as regent when he was
travelling with his army in the field.
This was in 1859, 1865 and 1870, the
latter date being the Franco-Prus-
sian war.
At the outbreak of the Franco
Prussian war there were many per-
sons who accused Eugene of being
responsible for the commencement of
hostilities. Later her enemies said
she was the cause of all the calam-
tiles which befell her. Nevertheless,
--!e cae-time empress from the public
generally received respectful SYM
pathy and even after her beauty had
faded and age crept upon her she was
reverently greeted by those who saw
her seated in the parks of Paris.
Lame, bent and white haired, the
former empress was called "Europe's
Queen of Sorrow"
Eugene lost the sight of one of
her eyes and was fearful of becoming
totally blind. With the desire again
to visit again her native country,
Spain, she begged that she might be
taken there before she became entirely
blind. Her wish was granted.
The ex-empress was almost impa-
tient for the end of her long lease
of life. 1t ran "a years. Forty-four
were sparkling in the successive roles
of Spanish countess, Eugene Marie
de Mountijo, travelling through Eu-
rope, a visitor to the French court,
wife of Napoleon III, and an occasional
regent of the French empire. Then
in day the whole structure of i'm
perial eminence collapsed. The other
half of her life was mournful, so much
so that Eugene had said: 81 wish
had passed when the shadowy fabric
of my dream fell apart"
That day of disaster was the 4th
day of September, 1870, when she
and all Paris had heard of the defeat
and capture of Napoleon at Sedan
The riotous mobs of Paris, shouting
for the new republic which the dep.
uties proclaimed, stormed the place Of
the Tuileries and howled imprecations
upon Eugenie's head until the en-
press became convinced that her life
was in peril, and fled to England.