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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MARCH

22, 1935.

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NAPOLEON'S LOVE LIFE

EMPRESS' LETTERS TO HER MOTHER.

HAPPY YEARS IN FRANCE

Paris.

Napoleon, conqueror of Europe,

and interests me. I have arranged with him to give you all the proofs of the attachment which the Em peror heaps upon my family and the happiness which your daughter enjoys."

The earlier letters of the series' roveal that the financial worrica which beset Josephine induced her to marry Napoleon while he was still struggling to get ahead.

APPEALS FOR HELP

Frantic appeals for help, for money and for fruit to keep herself

was an attentive and amiable end her children,-Eugono and "band, even being. willing to have

Hertense, alive filled most of the

his mother-in-law and his wife's letters. Ten years beforé Joseph- relatives live with him, according the became empress of the French, to newly-discovered letters from she struggled for life. Empress Josephine to her mother In Martinique.

Tho

struggles are best related in three

་ ་ of the letters, all addressed to her mother, Mme. Joseph Gaspard

These letters from the beautiful Creole, Josephine, who was Napo- leon's first wife, together with Tascher de La Pagerib, at Troia Napoleon's own letters to Mario Ilets, Martinique. Shedding new

Louise, hia second wife, are the light on Josephine's stormy, life, the only Napoleana which have come to light. In recent years,

Mme. Irmine Ramaette, editor of Le Tresor Des Lettres, which le publishing the Josephine letters, Bald she found them in the Nation al Library while seeking material for a history of Martinique.

letters disclose the real suffering of a native girl of Martinique, first married to an island nobleman who was guillotined In 1704. She eventually became Empress of Martinique under the Ariens Peace Treaty of 1802, under which Eng- land, having seized the island in

"This is the first publication of 1794, gave it back to France and Josephine's letters," sho sald. "Napoleon's own letters to to Napoleon, who had by then been Josephine were published long ago married for six years to the beaute- and are available in every Napo-ous Creole."

leonic History and blography, part!-

cularly in the work of Frederick

The first letter to Josephine's

Mnsson, who published them in full mother announced the guillotining. late in the 19th Century.

of her husbandl, Viscount de Beau-

"But these letters of Josephinearnais. Matters went from bad to her mother are new. With to worse with Josephine and then Napoleon's own unpublished letters weeks later she was forged to admit to Marie Louise, which are soon to to her mother in her second letter be made public, these documents without any expressed sentiment throw new light on Napoleon's character."

(except gratitude to the giver--that

she, and the children were able to

The letters of Josephine de Beauexist only by the help of 010 harnals informally describe her Emmery, de. Dunkerque.

own life in Europe to her mother

The

living in Martinique and throw an future Express did not seem con- entirely new light on the emperor's science-stricken over being support- love life. They depict him as a fed by a strange man, being more husband anxious to please his wife concerned with the fact that the and to aid her friends and relatives arrangement would be temporary.

FIRST LETTER

Nothing in her past life had. In

In her first letter home, shortlyfact, instilled dampproval of that after her marriage to Napoleon in sort of thing in her, March 1798, Josephine wrote:

"You must love Bonaparte,;

Mother. lie makes your daughter

CHANCE AFFAIR

More than one year later, in 1796,

very happy. He is good and amt-Josephine casually told her mother able; in every way a charming for the first time that she had marrled General Bonaparte, indicat-

man."

In a letter a few months Intering that the marriage was not an from Paris she wrote of Napoleon's | exceptionally fortunate catch for willingness to have his mother-in- her but that Bonaparte was a very law and her relatives live with them.

charming man nevertheless und ahe was sure her mother, would like

"Bonaparte and myself have the him. greatest desire that you come and

live with us," she wrote. "My In a letter after the restoration uncle must come to France and of Martinique to Franco. Josephine bring all his children with him. wrote to her mother: Bonaparte, will take charge of

them."

"He (Bonaparte) wants very much

In one of the last letters of the

for you to come to Franco If you collection, four years before Napo-Can accustom yourself to live in a leon divorced her for not bearing climate so different from that. If him children, Josephine wrote: you comply with my desires, you must depart so you can arrive in "Dear Mother: I am charging June. You would like Bonaparte my cousin with giving you nows. very much. He is making your I am sure in advance of the plea-daughter very happy. He is good sure you will have to learn from and he is altogether charming. He him all that concerns the Emperor loves your Yeyette."--United Press.

These three are in the public #ja: Left-to-sight, Hers Goobbels, Keizbminister of Propaganda,

M. Francola Poncet, Franch Ambassador to Berlin, and Der Fusbrar.

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