THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3464, 7 April 1930, Page 7

THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.

A snub administered by the wile in a public offmiai tc.a oeantiml Spanish girl at a New Year's Fx’e juill in Raris gave Franco its most bcaiitilul empress. Wlu'ii Marie Eugenie do. Monlijo. daughter of the Spanish aristocrat, the Count of Tebo, came to Raris Irom Gi amnia, where she was born in 1826, it was to attend finishing school, and later to lake part in the various social activities of the French < apital. li-'r beauty—she was the Titian type. with exquisite complexion and wondcrliil TigU'e- quickly made her popular, and. with her mother, site xvas invited exerxw lie re. At that time Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Napoleon, was president of the republic, and it was at a Kali at the Flysee in 1851 that Eugenie first met him. He was attracted In Iter, and mother and daughter received invitations to * lit* ;1 | Fontainebleau, where tin: future emperor paid her marked attentions. ' It, was impossible lor a bcantihii wa man to be singled out for admiration |, v a "Teat personage without causing comment, and se Eugenie was treated to a course of cuts and snubs calculated in make tilings difficult lor bei Rut tin' climax came at the New 5 ear '< ball, w bi'ii the w lie ol an imperial : official openly cut Fngenie when she bowed to her. When ibis incident reached the ears of Napoleon, who bad. in the meantime been proclaimed emperor. lie exclaimed: “I will avenge von." Three day- later be mad.' Eugenie a formal proposal lor marriage. When Napoleon announced Ins oetrotlial in a speech from the throne on January 22. 1853. lie took occasion to publiclv justify what many people considered a mesalliance. In the conr-e of bis speech he ventured a remarkab.e prediction concerning bis future xxile that was to be verified to a reman<nfiic degree with the words: "She will be an ornament to Hie throne, and in the day of danger she will become one ol its courageous supports. Fmmnie and Napoleon were marnei, f„,'January -30. 1*53, and the beaniy anil brains of Mm I'rem hj empress sun became a bmi.-elield word ilirouglioiii Europe. Her grace, brilliance ''legaim* nml charm conirihiitcd greatly to tm “lory of the imperial rc«/mm. am! vmn the 'em! came sbi- wa - one ol Mn- xerx f,-u u|* < > shewed ca I m lies - ami ain Ibe face ** I Ibe reu.lill mn and r (real. , , Ulc- the death nl I*olll.-- -NapelcDi* I-;,,..cum built !i• • i .-i’ll a magnificent li.mi*' .H Fa in bur* mgb. Hi'ii r I''" 1 ' 11 " 1 ' a,,,] she al-o designed ami built a lineuilicent mausoleum to Mn- memoix <|* her bn band xx In* in In r ex*' x\ a > ; ■ 1 I in- la-t Fni perm ol j' i ■""-*■ dentil ol her roil 111 1 8 * ! I in Hm An In War war a bitter blow m Imr