A NEW NAPOLEON

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4290, 25 February 1901, Page 5

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 Nauendorff* to the French Crown are well known. Some of the German papers are now assert-', ing that a man named Charles Gustavs 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 M "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 CHem,nitz, and tho son of the First Napoleon, was that he spoke French with a strong Teutonic accent. Nauendorff. who put forward his claims to he regarded as Louie XVII., was a clockmaker in a town in! Holland, the late M. Charles Louis Bonanarte. 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 th« real Napoleon HI.