Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1921-05-18
PALACE IS TURNED INTO PARK.
Tho Beautiful Estate Of tho Haps-
b'irgs is Now Public Property.
{ Milwaukee Sentinel.)

perial Schoenbrunn. Austria's Ver-
saillcs, haunted by the shades Of
! Hapsburg kings, has lost the royal
mantle that has hcdged it in during
the brilliant centuries of it's history.
No more will plots Of empire be
nourished in its regal gardens or in
! its marble halls.
From the ownership Of imperial
sovereigns it has passed to the own
| ership Of the sovereign people OF all
Austria. Henceforth it will echo to
| the laughter Of Vienna's children.
Its gardens will become the great
| picnic grounds OF the Austrian capi-
tai. It's summer palace. which has
housed the great in history. will ex-
hibit the relics OF Hapsburg bondage
for the enlightenment Of an enamel
pated people.
Schoenbrunn, with its five hun
drcd acres Of gardens, It's palace of
fifteen hupdred rooms. its colonnude
| and its pools, has been dcmocratized
Henceforth 1t will be the peoples
Playground
Once Hunting Preserve.
Way back in 500 Emepror Maxi
| MILAN II acquired a small hunting
| lodge in the environs OF Vienna. The
! ono distinguishing feature OF the
surrounding land was beautiful
spring that bubbled happily from Il
cleft in the outcropping rock. From
| the spring he called the place Scho-
| enbrunn. 1t has been the fayorite
summer residence Of the Hapsburgs
| ever since.
Few parks IN the world are as
beautiful as Schoenbrunn. Few pal
aces have given greater pleasure to
their royal hosts than the great edi-
flee that rises Il one end Of the park.
Yet Schoenbrunn has its tragedies
as well as its gayetes. Emperors
have been born there and risen to
glory-but emperors also have dicd
there, embittered by harsh defeat.
Napoleon, who married Marie LOU
ise Of Hapsburg, made the palace
his headquarters in 1905 and 1909.
There are many mementoes Of him
still preserved in it's multitude OF
rooms. In 1909 death sought him
out in the garden before the palace
but failed to take him.
NapOlc0n's Son.
After the defeat of Waterloo when
Louis XVIII was made king OF
France and Napoleon was sent into
exile, the king Of Rome and Marie
Louise, his mother, returned to the
palace at Schoenbrunn A few years
later the king Of Rome who had
been made the Duke Of Reichstadt,
died in the very room that Napoleon
his father had used in happier days.
Meneval, Napoleon's secretary, ac-
companied Marie Louise and her son
to Vienna. He remained with them
for some time. On the eve Of his de-
parture to Join the exiled monarch
he sought the young son. He found
| him surrounded by the men of the
| Austrian court. Meneval asked him
in their presence If he had message
| for his father.
The king Of Rome silently with
| drew into the embrazure Of a win
| dow. Meneval followed him, bend
| ing toward him to bid him farewell.
And the heir to Napoleon, with a
touching expression, said in low
| voice:
"M. Meneval, you will tell him
that still love him dearly"
A few years later the young duke
Of Reichstadt died. He IS buried in
the palace crypt. His room has never
been slept in since.
In the palace Is another apart
ment Of tragic interest. 1t is the
bedroom Of the emperor's brother
Maximllian. who was shot in Mexl-
co. His portrait hangs on the wall
and near 1T is that Of his wife, Car
lotta. Across a table lies a scarf en-
broidered by Carlotta as q present
for Maximillian on the eve Of his
departure to be emperor of Mexico.
| He wore II to the very day Of his
execution at the close OF the Mexican
revolution.