A ROYAL ROMANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 288, 2 December 1905, Page 13

A ROYAL ROMANCE.

career ;pf 'Princess Pierre Bonaparte. . trho Jiist flipd. .was romatie»»." Ttet ■nafeep name was wae v of 'humble .orlght. 1 cabinetmaker, and lived with htjr'parents' In 'the Fnnbourg Saint Adtoine. 'Somehow sr other ;the "Prince ■ met*her,.<i!elltin/ , love rrith 'her, .and .eo.Hclted ; the :Pe,rml?slo«i of his uncle,' Napoleon :IH., marry ."her. Xlie perraisslpn was retuaed, but the clovers rllspensed with 'it. A ' poreican .prleet,' Mibe Cnzenpve, married -them secretly In one of the jchapels of Saint Cr<erman \l\ Aux- : ' crrpls. Tliey settled -lv .a .house itA • Au-^. t.euil, where ; the famous drama Df the shoptlng ,o,f Victor Noir. which the Prince was tried .py ,the Hteh In 187 D, ;but acqplttrd pn the ground. tt»at he had believed his life ito-be threatened, und .'had ..acted -,in .self-defence. Prince Pierre, .after ; this Incident, fell upon .evil , lays. Letters of his Jhave been published In which he-p'eade fot-the .loan .of small sums. After .his death his .widow' .had at .one =tlme : a • ,-shop ' ; ln T<ondpn: . nnd his daughter, Princeee Jeanne, now, narftnlse de "vyiHepentte,-. studied Mt. ex-. tiiblted a<t the Solon, and -worked for .the Illustrated papers; rlt ;V.as throueh a wealthy fclliow-stndpnt of the art schools that <ehe restored the fallen fortunes of the family. lady. Mile. .Marie-Felix Blanc, fell :in -love' with Prince Roland Bonaparte and married -him. On the 'day? wedding -she -mnde -Princess tTeanne. .' a present of two mililon francs. Princess Jeanne's own -marriage also came ahput: romantically. Her hustiand ;was -from . Provence, and paid -his court while -«al-: lontly assisting her to translate a Pro-. venckl poem which she had undertaken to Uluetrate for a firm of publishers. ■' -