Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1885 — The Confession of Napoleon’s Wife. [ARTICLE]

The Confession of Napoleon’s Wife.

Marie Louise was sitting one evening with Lady Burghersh, when the conversation turned upon Napoleon, to whom the former said she had certainly believed herself much attached, and was so, having been dazzled by his military glory and the greatness of his situation on the imperial throne, etc. Lady Burghersh then asked if she had not kept up a correspondence with him during flhe time of his residence in Elba. She answered: “Yes; I cer-. tainly carried on such a correspondence to a much greater extent than was ever suspected.” “Then why,” said Lady Burghersh, “did you not join him during the hundred days ?” The answer, “I could not,” was made. On being further pressed as to the obstacles which prevented this, Marie Louise answered only “that it was impossible,” but at last euded by stating that being with child by another man was the invincible reason that prevented it. That man the Empress married immediately on the death of Napoleon, having had two children by him previously and two subsequent to the r mair age. Marie Louise was living with him when this conversation took place.