The Death Of The Fourth Napoleon
The spear of i South African savage has practically extinguished tlie liopes of a politieal party in F ranee, ïne same Zulu strategy that lately cut off the flower of the British troopa in South África has now been fatal to the claimant of a tlirone. The gentle and amiable boy who was still called the Prince Imperial of Franoe, thougli thethrone to which lie aspiredno longer existed, lias suffeved anide and violent death, and the Bonaparte claim - If that can be called so which has no rightful title and claims what does not exist - reverta to a Prince who was really hostile to the Third Kmpire, and has no hold npon the affections Of rltose who hope for its restoration. This young Napoleon was virtually the last of the Royal line, and the manner of his death may be said, in all seriousness, to be appropriate. ïhe Bonapartes were adventurers from the beginning to the end. The first of the line, who began as a aub-lieutenant of artillery and ended as a petty prisoner on a South Atlantic island, lmving meanwhile made the earth shake with the tread of his armies, and built up thrones and pulled them down as children play with their blocks, was simply the most sublime adventurer the woild ever saw; but, then, all great men have been adventurers, and they all trace back to one cominon origin - the great re public of humanity.
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