EUGENIE'S NEW HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8664, 5 September 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

EUGENIE'S NEW HOME.

The Empress Eugenie will in futuro live a good deal in the South of Franco. She has bought for £7000 five acres of ground on tho beautiful spot on the French part of the Riviera, namely, Cap St. Martin, the tongue of land which juts oub into tho Mediterranean between Monaco and Mentone. The price for tho situation is nob high. The Empress intends to build a villa on hor ground. She was staying in a hotel at Cap St. Martin when tho census was being taken. A form was served on her. Sho filled it up in her own handwriting, which is shaky from rheumatism. The answers to the different printed questions wero thus filled in :—" Comtosse do Pierrefond (Marie Eugenie); aged sixty-four; born at Granada, Spain ; naturalised French ; a widow ; had one child— son ; lives on her income; of no profession or business; a sojourner in France; lives usually in England; is travelling with two friends and four servants." The dark sky of England disagrees with the Empress. She was so glad of the life and brightness of tho South when sho went there. Ib being her intention bo adopt Princo Napoleon's family, sho is glad not to be far from Turin. Her relations with the Duchesse de Mouchy, who often went to her as a person needing money, are not what they used to be. Tho Empress is a martyr to rheumatism, and so helpless from it as almost bo give the impression that she suffers from a paralytic tendency. She docs not care to stay in Paris. Ib has all grown strange and bewildering to her, and there is still enough of what she recollecbs to arouse harrowing memories.