Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . eiview. Josephinethen, in the experience of an intensity of anguish whichfew hearts have ever known, parted forever from the hus-band whom she had so long, so fondly, and so fliithfullyloved. After the Empress had retired, with a desolated heart,to her chamber of vmnatural widowhood, the attendant en-tered the apartment of Napoleon to remove the found the Emperor so buried beneath the bedclothesas to be invisible. Not a word was uttered. The lit^htswere removed, and the unhoppy nionarch was left in dark-ness
Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . eiview. Josephinethen, in the experience of an intensity of anguish whichfew hearts have ever known, parted forever from the hus-band whom she had so long, so fondly, and so fliithfullyloved. After the Empress had retired, with a desolated heart,to her chamber of vmnatural widowhood, the attendant en-tered the apartment of Napoleon to remove the found the Emperor so buried beneath the bedclothesas to be invisible. Not a word was uttered. The lit^htswere removed, and the unhoppy nionarch was left in dark-ness and silence to the dreadful comj)anionship of his ownthoughts. The next morning the death-like pallor of hischeek, his sunken eye, and the haggard expression of hiscountenance, attested that the Emperor had passed thenight in sleeplessness and suflering. Great as was the wrong Avhich Napoleon thus inflictedupon the noble Josephine, every one must be sensible of acertain kind of grandeur which pervades this renownedtragedy m the life and history of the Emperor Napoleon hlj St-ciUm U/:^ ^/UiUi/^r/fijjit ifil^DS3€E W/\lPTQ)ILEffira ARSIJ !H!S WCFE TiHlE raORCEiS (SLOTDLEE. PRINCE AND PRINCESS NAPOLEON. Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, second andonly suiviving son of Jerome Bonaparte by his secondwile, the Princess Frederique of Wiirtemberg, was bornSeptember 9, 1822. He was educated chieily in Austriaand Italy, but he subsequently travelled in Switzerland,America, and Brussels, in each of wliich places he residedsome time. His first appearance on the political stagewas after the recall of the Bonaparte family to Paris,xmder the presidency of Prince Louis Napoleon. Beingelected a member of the Legislative Assembly, the PrinceNapoleon distinguished himself by his energetic sujjportof ultra opinions, and soon became the recognized leaderof the party of the Mountain. Since the accession ofNapoleon HI. to the Imperial crown, Prince Napoleonhas abandoned extreme p
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