Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1879 — Wealth of the Napoleons. [ARTICLE]

Wealth of the Napoleons.

“The First Napoleon,” remarks the Continental and Swiss Times, “endowed all his family splendidly, as the master of Europe might have been expected to do. The records of St. Hel-

ena show that a sum variously estimated at from $20,000,000 to $100,000,000 of money was at the command of the exiled Emperor in Amsterdam, Frankfort and London. Notwithstanding the idle stories which have been current for years as to the pecuniary embarrassments of Napoleon 111. before he became ruler of France, it is absolutely certain that at the death of his father, the ex-King of Holland, at Leghorn, in 1846, he inherited a very handsome property.”