Identifier: publicprivatehis00schm (find matches)
Title: The public and private history of Napoleon the Third, emperor of the French; with biographical notices of his most distinguished ministers, generals, relatives, and favorites, and a narrative of the events of the war in Italy
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Schmucker, Samuel Mosheim, 1823-1863. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rked and applauded the act.Eugenie blushed profusely, yet smiled sweetly in token of he.rjoy. The very next day the fair and proud Countess de Cas-tiglione started, with her complacent husband, for Lombardy. It is barely possible that the criminality of this connectionrests only in the suspicions of the perverse public. It is pos-sible that the intelligence and wit of the Countess, rather thanher beauty, attracted her imperial admirer. Louis Napoleonis almost constantly engaged in the laborious duties of hishigh ofl&ce, and even his intercourse with the Empress must,to a great extent, be characterized by a political tinge ; theirconversation must have frequent and constant reference to theonerous labors and responsibilities which rest upon him. Itwould therefore be a great relief to his care-tired thoughts torelax his mind in the gay and entertaining society of such awoman as the Countess, to whom politics and ambitious pro-jects, dark conspiracies and formidable combinations were
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EJfiTP BY JDTiN. SARTAIti. OUi^TESi) G^STOOLDO OF NAPOLEON III. 239 total strangers. Such indeed may have been the nature ofher association with the hero of the coup d^etat, in spite ofall the uncharitable and nmlicious suppositions of the world. Louis Napoleon is surrounded by living monuments of theincontinence of his illustrious race; for one of his chieffavorites is the Count de Morny, who is an illegitimate sonof Hortense. Another is Prince Walewski, the fruit of anamour of the great Napoleon with a beautiful Polish lady,the Countess Walewski, whom the conqueror met at the periodof the battle of Eylau. Count de Morny was the Frenchambassador to the Court of St. Petersburg. Prince Walew-ski was the President of the famous Peace Congress of Paris,which terminated the war in the Crimea. These two noble-men, together with the Prince Napoleon, who strikinglyresembles the great Napoleon in his person and in his features,constitute the chief favorites of the Imperial family ; and theyno

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