The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-02-14

Imperial Palace. the ovations were
continuous; a fountain formed a
symbolic bow Of alliance; on foot,
on horseback, in carts decked with
flowers, the peasants filed past
uninterruptedly in local dress; a
banquet for the soldiers at the
Robertsau; another for the en-
press and her retinue at the house
of the Project Lezay-Marnesia.
NAPOLEON could make his
y mind easy, the rejoicings were
complete. One of her pages de-
livered TO Marie Louise. together
with a bunch of flowers, the fol-
lowing letter.
Madam, had just sent of the
letter / wrote to you yesterday
when received Your Majesty's
letter from Stuttgart. You write
such sweet things and give me such
touching assurances that my heart
is deeply moved. The letters of the
Prince de Neufchatel and Caroline
fill me with tenderness towards
you and increase my impotence;
how happy / shall be to see you
and tell you of all of my affection
for you! The telegraph informed
me yesterday that you had caught
cold. do beg you to take care of
yourself. / went shooting this
morning and am sending you the
first four pheaSants / shot as a
royalty that is but due to the
Queen of all my most secret
thoughts, why am 1 not in the
place of the page taking the oath
of allegiance. with one knee on
the ground, and my hands in
yours; receive in imagination, at
least just as /, in imagination,
cover your beautiful hands with
kisses. This evening, you are still
at Luneville. Tomorrow you will be
seeing Prince Schwarzenberg and
Countess Metternich; / thought
their visit would please you. I
long to hear whether you like
our good city of Strasbourg.-
Adieu, Madam. you speak of me,
you think of me, and this idea is
a very charming one for me. More
over. it is but fair. for l think of
you very often, Louise.
Your
Napoleon
Compiegne, March 2zth, 1910.
NAPOLEON came to meet the
L y empress at the Palace of
Compiegne Looking back to the
ceremony at Notre Dame, when
he placed INT crown on the brows
of Josephine. who knelt before
him, he ordained the procedure
of his first interview with Marie
Louise.
Their majeSties were to meet
at a spot Two league from Sois-
sons, where a tent had been put
up; the empress was to bend low.
before him, but before she knelt,
the emperor was to have raised
her up.
His Impotence, and likewise the
rain, altered these arrangements.
Setting out hastily in a light car
riage on March 81, with Murat,
King of Naples, he met the
daughter ~ the Emperor Francis
at the village of Courcelles.
Madame, he said to her, "it
gives me great pleasure to meet
you And entering the coach he
returned with her to Compiegne,
arriving there at 10 o'clock in the
evening.
The civil marriage was cele-
brated at Saint-Cloud on April /.
The next day. the emperor and
empress mace a solemn entry into
Paris by the Etoile gate, passing
under the vet unfinished Arc de
Triomphe.
Glorious sunshine lit up the
enhancing spectacle of the pro-
cession advancing in the midst of
a huge crowd towards the Tuil-'
cries Palace. An altar had been
erected in the Salon d'Apollon at
the Louvre.
Here, in the presence of the
queens Of Spain, Holland and
Westphalia. of the Princess Elisa
Baciocchi, and Pauline Borghese,
bearing the train of the empress,
Cardinal Fesoh, grand almoner,