Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — Napoleon and His Brother Louis. [ARTICLE]

Napoleon and His Brother Louis.

From earliest childhood certain qualities of Louis had endeared him to Napoleon. The school of poverty. In which the younger brother had been the pupil of the elder, was likewise a school of fraternal affection. Throughout the Italian and Egyptian campaigns they stood in Intimate relations as general and aide-de-camp, and one of the< earliest cares of the First Consul was to bestow the beautiful Hortense de Beauharnais on his favorite brother. In jISO4 Louis was made, general, then jcouucllor of state, and finally in 1806 ;he was elevated to the throne of Holland. His. child until its untimely death wasclierist ed by Napoleon as a son destined to inherit imperial greatness. But, like the other royal Bonapartes, the King of Holland regarded his high estate not as a gift from the Emperor, but as a right. He ruled the land signed' him, if not In his own interest, at least not in that'Af the Empire, and from the outset filled his letters with bitter .complaints of all that entered into his lot, not excepting his wife. Napoleon admonished and threatened, but to no avail. The interests of his own royalty and of the Dutch were nearer to Louis than those of the Ein-pire.---Century. J Uncle Bob—l hope, Tommy, you are U favorite with your teacher. Tommy i—l think I must be. She can’t seem to get enough of me, or she wouldn’t keep me in so much. —Harper’s Bazar.