. The public and private history of Napoleon the third, Emperor of the French : with biographical notices of his most distinguished ministers, generals, relatives, and favorites, and various details descriptive of France under the Second Empire . remarked and applauded the blushed profusely, yet smiled sweetly in token of herjoy. The very next day the fair and proud Countess de Cas-tiglione started, with her complacent husband, for Lombardy. It is barely possible that the criminality of this connectionrests only in the suspicions of the perverse public. It is pos-sible that the int
. The public and private history of Napoleon the third, Emperor of the French : with biographical notices of his most distinguished ministers, generals, relatives, and favorites, and various details descriptive of France under the Second Empire . remarked and applauded the blushed profusely, yet smiled sweetly in token of herjoy. The very next day the fair and proud Countess de Cas-tiglione started, with her complacent husband, for Lombardy. It is barely possible that the criminality of this connectionrests only in the suspicions of the perverse public. It is pos-sible that the intelligence and wit of the Countess, rather thanher beauty, attracted her imperial admirer. Louis Napoleonis almost constantly engaged in the laborious duties of hishigh office, and even his intercourse with the Empress must,to a great extent, be characterized by a political tinge; theirconversation must have frequent and constant reference to theonerous labors and responsibilities which rest upon him. Itwould therefore be a great relief to his care-tired thoughts torelax his mind in the gay and entertaining society of such awoman as the Countess, to whom politics and ambitious pro-jects, dark conspiracies and formid|J)le combinations were. .,Vo- nij/jHN saamiiv WBlTESS C^S^ OV NAPOLEON III. 239 total strangers. Such indeed may have been the nature ofher association with the hero of the coup detat, in spite ofall the uncharitable and malicious suppositions of the Napoleon is surrounded by living monuments of theincontinence of his illustrious race; for one of his chieffavorites is the Count de Morny, who is an illegitimate sonof Hortense. Another is Prince Walewski, the fruit of anamour of the great Napoleon with a beautiful Polish lady,the Countess Walewski, whom the conqueror met at the periodof the battle of Eylau. Count de Morny was the Frenchambassador to the Court of St. Petersburg. Prince Walew-ski was the President of the famous Peace Congress of Paris
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