1959-02-21 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARI7. 21, 1959. J

■BEAUTY OR BRAINS ?-

She cheated Napoleon THIS is the Gin

too often

once JOSEPHINE do Beauharnais was

beautiful.

Her beauty saved her from the guillotine and made her Empress of France. But it also brought about her downfall. For sho overestimated its power over the one man who really mat- tored-her husband, Napoleon Bonaparte.

Yet for a long time her glamorous looks made an emotional beggar of Europe's ruthless conqueror.

Josephine never truly loved Napoleon. Elegant and aristocratic, she despised his rough Corsican background. He, however, was hopelessly in love with her. When he beseechingly reproached her for her infidelity, she either called him "funny" or ignored him. And for a long time the most feared man in Europe did nothing about it."

All the same, Josephine knew · that to survive at the top sho had to use men. And Napoleon was the mosi' "useful" man in the world.

It was under the grim shadow of the guillotine that Josephine learned the usefulness of men. During the Revolution, her hund, the Count de Benu karenis,

Was executed and Josephine wee thrown into

prison. It seemed certain that she would suffer the same fate

by

REX LOPEZ

os her husband. But if other head of the one aristocrats were ready to proudly to their deaths, Jose-

coted

filiated. He fell for her

Josephine. Because she transparent lies, had her re- seemed so inaccessible, he was leased and installed her ab his all the more flattered when she mistress,

began to encourage him.

By the time Barras did turn Barron she married Napoleon in Josephine had conquered the

mon la the her out, Josephine was able to

a civil ceremony, could country who

into her run BAVE

straight

Napoleon's Then Josephine's weakness neck

But the way too clever waiting arms,

tegon to get the better of her. phine was not, She loved Be to be smug about this. Burras As the most attractive women, With Napoleon away fighting in too much, and she was a realist. was a man of moods and shift- in Paris and former mistress of Haly, she began the old round

One man in all France could would be prepared for the day her plek

ing affections. A wise women the head of state, Josephine had of parties and lovers. Napoleon save her-Earras, head of

of the men, Why, heard of her behaviour revolutionary government. ile when his passion cooled.

Then, did she .choose the gently reproached her by lotter. shallow feed, unattractive But Josephine, secure in the Napoleon?

thought of his blind love and Because, like other wonten their marriage ties, ignored him. of destiny, Josephine had the canny ability to spot the man who was fated to reach the top.

wps the sort of

man

the

whom Josephine would never love given

of

a second thought when she was the gayest Paris's gay benulles. But the siluation was desperate.

was

Josephine's beauty famous enough for Barros lo be intrigued when she some- how managed to gel word to

him that she had long admired hlm. Barras's vanliy

WAS

JACOBY

on BRIDGE

Gekende

In Д fashionable Paris restaurant, "Boeuf a la Mode," where sho often went with

·Barras, Josephine found what she was looking for, her second line of defence ris- ing young officer named Napoleon Bonaparte. 'tracted to the elegant, sophisti Napoleon was immediately at

4

and

Cuckolded and secretly mock- ed by everyone who know of Josephine's wayward habits,

Napoleon, nevertheless, con

tinued to love her.

So convinced was slic thu Napoleon would eventually lead Even when he became ruler France that the determined to of Frince, and then Emperor, few weeks after make her position secure. A Josephine did not change.

parting tromk Indeed, she added wild extra-

vagance to her other faults.

BY. THE

WAY.

by Beachcomber

She spent more on cosmetics in a month than the most fasil dious Parisian ladies dld in

Themence of Dr Strubianus central-controllers, the overseer year,

44 Her costmetics bill for a planning month was £140.

THE

(Whom God Preserve)" of bureaux, the alzulury increasing. Every week I receive panel, the censultant sub-offices,+ Her hairdressers received Utrecht on our national life is thorities, the interim

rultings describing queer inven- and other cenocmitant organisa- The Jacoby transfer bid serves tions, and they are always attri- tions and ancillary deportimental

several purposes with to-buted by the correspondents personnel. day's hand..

of Waggling Triassically speaking sago

to tho

To start with, North cannot be Parva.

sure that there is game in the His methods of research are READ

A

Napolcon's

more than pencrals. She had 500 dresses and 200 pairs of stockings.

His wife's infidelity drove Napoleon almost to distraction. But Josephine ignored his entreaties.

1ked ber as cordially as she had disliked him.

What was inexcusable was Josephine's spying on Napo- Icon. The men who sought to depose Napoleon pald ber 240 day for the alate accreta Napoleon whispered to her in the privacy of their boudoir..

The only explanation is that something in Josephine rebelled against her marriage to a man she did not love and that she took every chance to hurt bim.

But like so many people of her kind, Josephine could not alumach her own medicine. Her private scorn of Napoleon's clumsy love had trapped her into believing that I was in- cxhaustible.

She miscalculated badly. At last, in disgust, Napoleon turned away from her and began a series of affairs with a whole string of mistresses.

Ironically, this transformed

into Josephine

a loving and faithful

wife. As the รอพ Napoleon slip away from her, he become infinitely "desirable.

But she wa too late.

had cheated Napolcon once too often. And after triumph over Austria in 1909, Napoleon told her that for "rea- Suns of state of the most urgent kind, he was compelled to divorce her..

She that, from informa-+ She bought 38 hats a month, hand or whether it should play also being used. The other day we now know that "the carth

tion supplied by a satelle,+In a year, she bought 980 pairs of gloves, 73 corsets, in no-trump or la diamonds, it was announced that some

and 500 pairs of shoes, However, since he is wide open people are inore affected by the is slightly pear-shaped, with the at the North Pole." in both majors and his diamonds noise of aircraft than others, tall end bren't headed by the ace he de- | because they are

Her total yearly expenditure ore sensitive Make your plans accordingly on self-adornment was not less

For this means that where the cides to get past three no-trump to noise. Strabismus lone stalic

than £40,000. And Napolcon and into five or six diamonds.

the put it more simply

would be in a pear when he

once had to settle outstanding upper crust of the cleavage Furthermore, he decides that wrote: "People who hate noise, faults. by tilting and compres- { dress bills of, £150,000 for her

tho

hls

Marle

the determining factor will be hate noise more than people the number of aces held by his who don't mind it." There sion, is slowly solidifying, due to But her extravagance went He wanted to found his own partner. Put one ace on the South falloweż eighteen pages about shallow conglomeraics in

beyond that. She never hesita- dynasty by marrying lower glacier layers. This pro- ted to Indulge Д whim, no Louise of Austria. cess is helped" by inconsequent

Josephine and Napoleon part reck erosion near the denuded matter how fleeting.

He did not, however, abandon

HARLIE SUET'S

network £1

of

hand and five diamonds is the decibels and semi-decibels. mest that can make bit give him | Will it work? two and there ought to be a good play for the slum.,

overall moraines, The earth, being a She collected exotic pets. At cd on November 30, 1808, His three clubs is the diamond

Iraffle plan bas Been criti- lithosphere with a varying dis-one time she had a parrot, n her completely. He set her up transfer and puts the diamond cised for its failure to provide tribution density, thus becomes black swan. gazelles, a flying in the Palace of Malmaison,

10 whtin the atmospherically nalleable, and squirrel, a kangaroo, a seal, an near Ruel, and play in the strong hand. The an authority

gave her a boards, committees, assumes the shape of the well-crang-utan, and a monkey. councils,

But he generous allowance. and regional, local, and zonal known fruit, (See Hounde's

And once she Imported a herd anned all traders from her bodies would be responsible. "Aspects of Petrologicni Bvsmo-of Swiss cattle, with a Swiss home. 13

Suot replies that the key to his liths and Plutonic Phacoliths.)"

shepherd and shepherdess whom There Josephine lived in plan is inter-responsibility self- Nothing to do with me she installed In a chalet ncar obscurity, an unhappy organised by

* women, alone.except for her liaison bodies, each co-operating E advantages of "a roam specially-built for them.

with the windows six feet

until her death series with a

Her extravagance was under- servants, of redundant executive commissioners in con- back from the outer walls" are standable-perhaps even exeus- May 29, 1814. stant touch with the

immediately nemad not

obylous.

But, to the last, Josephine View of. Joséphine's background. She had kept her grand inspectorate through a corps of Perhaps the idea is to make early

manner. On to been bor and raised in the, the eve of her death, sho supervisory administrators ap- Impossible for short people polnied by the Zooal Authority lean over the sills. Neither French colony of Martinique in dressed herself in an elaborate after consultation With

"the" "Ruskin' in 'fils" "Sever Ljumps of the West tudies, and bad beer thuis of rose satin

nor Gide in his promised in marriage without The woman whom beauty *egional and local committees. Architecture," the district councils, the Future TUTTOTIT*Kher consent, when the way title had betrayed salue One must- sectiorial_advisory boards, the thought of this.

more than a child. Her hus- not be frightful when divisional Tees, the deputy-

London Express Service. I band, de Beauharnais, had dis- dead":

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