Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — A Clever Retort by Napoleon I11. [ARTICLE]

A Clever Retort by Napoleon I11.

The Palais Royal, where always resided the younger branch of the reigning family, had at all times been a focus of opposition, and although the princes who lived there during the Empire owed everything to Napoleon 111., the old traditions were In this respect thoroughly revived. The poor Emperor, always kind, always gentle, always generous, was overpowered by the unpleasant relatives coming to him from his great predecessor, so that he might well answer, as be did on one occasion, when reproached by the aged Prince Jerome with having “nothing” of his brother the great Emperor, “I have his family!"—Century.