Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — Ex-Empress Eugenie. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ex-Empress Eugenie.

A cablegram says Eugenie, widow of Napoleon in., and for a time Regent of the Empire of France, Is spending the last days of her life with four secretaries writing and dictating her mem-

oirs, material for which is being sifted out of some 150 boxes of personal and political papers. These papers have been carefully preserved, since Eugenie left France an exile thirty years ago, and are believed to contain greatly interesting revelations in regard to Napoleon 111. and the causes that led to the faH of the last empire. • The ex-ruler is now 70 years old, and moves about in her house and grounds in an invalid’s chair. She has twice 1 within the last two years been falsely reported dead.