Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1910 — EMPRESS EUGENIE'S MEMOIRS. [ARTICLE]

EMPRESS EUGENIE'S MEMOIRS.

Has Not Written Reminiscences and Will Not Now or Later. In view of the persistent reports In circulation concerning the allege? memoirs of Empress Eugenie, for the publication of which it Is said negotiations are going on in Europe and America, the Herald correspondent asked Signor Franceschlnl Pletri, secretary of the empress, what foundation there was. for such rumors, a Paris dispatch to the New York Herald says. “None whatever,” declared Signor Pietrl, emphatically. “The empress has not written any memoirs and has no Intention of writing any, I am well aware of the re? ports you mention, but they are absolutely false. A well-known publish Ing firm In New York has been credited with the intention of issuing, on the death of the empress, a work purporting to be her memoirs. I wrote to the firm In question In October in» tlmating that any book of memoirs attributed to the empress could be nothing but rank forgery. To the letter I received no answer. “A British publisher is also said to possess a manuscript of alleged memoirs of the empress, ready for publication at the proper time. Letters are constantly reaching me from all parts of Europe inquiring about translation, „ rights and ofKer details about such a work, which, according to rumor, Is to be published simultaneously In London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid and New York. . “Once for all let me amputate the wings of this vigorous canard. I repeat, that the empress has not written and never will write her memoirs. Any such work, if ever published, can, therefore; be only a blatant forgery."