THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 180, 4 September 1914, Page 4

THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.

"Very touching and pathetic is tho Empress Eugenie's devotion to. the past," says the London " Daily .Telegraph. '' ' '_lt is well known that she visits* Paris she selectsx ■* by preference rooms in the Hotel Continental, vwhich overlook the Tuileries Gardens, as though it gave her a sombre pleasure to revive ancient memories of happiness and greatnesg. In the same spirit, as our own correspondent in Paris tell us, she has during her present stay in the French capital deliberately chosen to visit the Chateau of Fontainebleau—where everything must speaft\to her* of days of glory and power, when she was Empress and ruled, men's hearts and ;earoed the willing service of their hands. "Now well advanced in the vale of years, she loves to bethink of tnat wonderful experience of hers, wheiv Mademoiselle de Montijo came to Paris —came and saw., and conquered. It was. at the Etysee, we believe, that she first made the acquaintance of Louis Napoleon at one of the balls given by. the Prince-President. When she was she had the honour of being invited, with her mother, to Fontamebleau, and nojv, in her recent three hours' ramble through the Chateau, doubtless she sees once again how, as a dashing horsewoman, she,; the beautiful young Spaniard, wh'ose name was on every tongue, won the heart of her adoring host."