Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-12
Sketch of the Ex-Empress.

The ex-Empress Eugenie was almost impatient for the end of her long lease of life. It ran SS years. Forty-four were sparkling in the successive roles of the Spanish countess, Eugenie Marie de Non- tijo. travelling through Europe, a visitor to the French court wife of Napoleon III and an occasional regent of the French empire. Then in day the whole struc- ture of imperial emiHence collapsed. The other half of her life was mournful, so much so that Eugenie had said; T wish had passed when the shadowy fabric of my dream fell apart
 That day of disaster was the 4th of September, 1870, when she and all Paris had heard of the defeat and capture of Napoleon at Sedan. The empress was popularly accused of bringing on that dis astrous war with Prussia. Historians have since declared that there is little to support such charges, but the riotous mobs 0f Paris, shouting for the new re- public which the deputies proclaimed 'stormed the palace of the Tuleries and howled imprecations upon Eugenie's head until the empress became convinced that her life was in peril. Flight was decided upon, but one plan after another failed until an exit was found by way of the Louvre. The empress in disguise, accom-
  ing, was whirled away in cab to the residence of the American dentist, Dr Thomas J. Evans. Lost to all Paris, the ladies spent the night in the protection ot this chivalrous American and the nex day they were driven off in his carriage for flight across France to the channe and the secret boarding of a yacht fol England.
 But exile was not enough. Misfortune came in threes The fall of the empire was followed by the death of the exilec Emperor Napoleon III in England three years later. and the killing of his only son, the prince imperial, while in battle with the English Against the Zulus Sometimes" wrote the empress in a let ter which has recently come to light bear ing date of 1873. sometimes on seeing certain children tearing the wings of butterflies and tormenting poor thing! | that cannot show signs of suffering,
 have made the comparison that peop1, sometimes pluck out the heart and hurt i without knowing the evil that they dC with an eternal smile on their lips" Thi was written the day before her husband l died.
 The empress, in the two score year that followed, found intimate friends il England and interest in travel includin; I Dressed in black, she passed almost un noticed where once she was the leader o one of the most brilliant courts of tn, nineteenth century. In her occasional in terviews she revealed the strain o mournfulness in her life
 T am the past, the horizon" she said There is nothing for me but. to wait n, | winter is nearly over"
 | She prepared her last resting plac
 some years ago by ordering an addition
 to the mausoleum in the Benedictine ab
 hey which she built at Farnsworth an,
 where she buried the exiled emperor an, i the prince imperial.
 l One instance of Eugenie's former bril- liancy recalls the opening of the Sue
 anal. She was the center of the festivi ! ties at Cairo upon which the khedive i
 said to have spent all of the s11,o0O,oO 1 in his treasury. The gown she wore a i the khedival ball cost 900 and later i
 served to pay debt when she fled fror Paris. It has since been reported a brought to America for sale.
 It has been estimated that the forum of the ex-empress amounts to $3O, 900 ,ee( A report was published in Paris severa
 years ago that she had been induced t leave her entire estate to the church, bu this has not been confirmed