A NEW NAPOLEON

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1523, 28 February 1901, Page 45

A NEW NAPOLEON

There was for a long time a controversy over an alleged Dauphin son of Louis XVI., and the claims of the Dutch Nauendorffs to the French Crown are well known. Some of the German papers are now asserting that a man named Charles Gustave Louis Bonaparte, who has died lately at Chemnitz, in Saxony, was the illegitimate son of the Duke of Reichstadt, whom M. Rostand represents in his famous play as "L’Aiglon.” Amusement has been caused in Paris b ythis statement, and it is suggested that the only link of resemblance between the late M. Bonaparte, of Chemnitz, and the son of the First Napoleon, was that he spoke French with a strong Teutonic accent. Nauendorff, who put forward his claims to be regarded as Louis XVII., was a clockmaker in a town in Holland, the late M. Charles Louis Bonaparte, of Chemnitz, was a mere tailor. He has died at the age of sixty-eight, and leaves a widow whose mourning notice of her husband appeared in a local paper, and caused the propagation of the report that the humble Chemnitz tailor was the real Napoleon HI.