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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 49, 11 September 1891, Page 21

Noth withstanding the strict incognito observed by the Empress Eugenic, who is staying at tbe Hdtel Continental, Paris, under tbe name of tbe Comtease de Fierrefonds, a representative of the Jour has succeeded in obtaining a short interview with her. The reporter asked what she thought of the Parisians. " I love them," she replied, "as I loved them formerly. You cannot imagine how pleased I have been during tbe last few days to hear another language than English or Italian." Having been asked whether she proposed prolonging her stay in Paris, her Majesty replied, " I should like to do so, bat I have been made to understand that my presence here might lead to incidents, and as I am anxious to avoid attracting attention, I shall leave before the end of a week. At my age, with one foot in the grave, lam a veritable Wandering Jew." The reporter Bought to get tbe Empress to speak of the incidents which followed the death of Prince Napoleon, but be found her lips sealed on that question. Nevertheless, he asked point-blank whether she believed in tbe restoration of the Empire. The Empress is said to have exclaimed : " The Empire died with my eon."