OBITUAHIKS. 1-oKKHlN. (NAPOLEOK.) 



College f..r Women, and luti-r "ii I'l'.l. --,ru| ( '111111 -e 

 in tin- newly founded I nmi.-itv c,i Tukiu. in i~s,; 

 pcror nominated him a member of tin- Senate, 

 UIK! in IS'.MI, uii tin- uilii|iti<iii of tin- new Constitution, 

 inailf a lilr liii'lnlii-r of the House u| Pccrx. 

 Hi- translated >milc-'s "Self-Help," Mill's 

 on Liberty,'' ainl iiilu-r works, into Japanese, unl 

 prompted anil rditril hundreds of translations made 

 liv his pupils. 1U- was ui' assistance 1" tin- translators 

 of the Bible into Japanese. Hi- was tin- hitrhest au- 

 thority not only on tin- Chinese language and litcra- 

 turr. lull on tin- history and thcolo L '\ of Buddhism. 



Napoleon, I'rin.-i- Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Jerome 

 Bonaparte, usually known as 1'riiu-r Jerome, born in 

 Trieste, Sept. '.i, fs-j-j; died in Koine, Miuvh 17, 1891. 



- tin- son of Jen-mi-, e\ Kin:,' of Westphalia by 



ml marriaLfc with tin; Princess Fredcrika of 



Wiirtemberg, and was brought up under the care of 

 his grandmother, Mailanu- Letitia, mother of the first 



Napoleon. When lie was niiu- years old the family 

 wa~ expelled from Rome on account of the participa- 

 tion ot his cousins, the sons of Louis Bonaparte, in 

 tin- Insurrection in the Romagna, und lie was taken to 

 Florence, subsequently to Vienna, and in 1835 to 

 Geneva. In I^.'IT he entered the military institute of 

 Ludwigshurg in Wi'irtcnihcrir. Allowed, in 1845, to 

 live in Paris under the name of the Comtc dc Mont- 

 fort, he was afterward expelled on account of his 

 supposed participation in the Republican movement. 

 Alter the revolution of February, ls4s, he was elected 

 a member for < 'orsica in the (''onstituent Assembly. 

 He voted with the Moderate Republicans, and ac- 

 commodated his views Jo those of his cousin Louis 

 Napoleon, and was sent by the Prince President in 

 1849 us minister to the court of Madrid. Aspiring to 

 tin- supreme power himself, he left his j>ost without 

 authority, and assumed the lead of the Mountain or 

 Extreme Left. Possessing brilliant mental Drifts, and 

 a face and form that were a counterpart ofthe first 

 Napoleon, lie strove to embody the democratic side 

 of the Napoleonic legend, the earlier career of the 

 great Bonaparte, to resurrect the "Child of the K.-V.. 

 bitioii.'' the militant champion who defended the re- 

 public aira'nist Kuropc inarms. His penetration and 



political genius were reeoirni/cd, \ et he could attach 



no party to his cause because his truth and lioiieMy 

 werc always suspected. Although he stood aloof and 

 induced his father to stand aloof from the "// <l'it<it. 

 und was never quite trusted or foi-L'iven by Louis 

 Napoleon, when the empire was fully established, in 

 Is''.', the Kmperor felt the expediency of collecting 

 the imperial family about him, excluding the de- 

 scendants of Liicie'n. as they had been cut oil from 

 the succession by the decree of Napoleon I. Prince 

 .leromc was a member of the council to regulate the 

 family succession, and was made u Senator, a 



grand i-r-.r-t of tin- Li-^iou of Ilon.ir, and u general of 

 diviMon. He went to the < riiin-u. and w .. 

 the buttle of the Abna. Hi* diviri-.n eontl 

 nothing to the vielnry , and the foe.. of I'.'.n.ij.uMirin 

 marked him a* un object of entire, tigmati/in^ Inn, 

 with no g<*,.| reuwni a-, a eo\ard. He utl'/rded u 



colorable jUhtiHcution for the Uttliek litter l.\ : 



ing his eomiiiuiid and leuxin-/ the n-ut of wiir. w |j-ri- 

 Marshal St. Arnuiid wiu. to di<-. on jileiiof ill lu-ulth, 

 and cave further otlciiw | ( \ i.ul.lihlung in Hi; 



pamphlet criticising the ]M)ficV and Mruteg\ of the 



1.'-. - . I . .1 . I ' . I .1 



time out of France-, returning t<> .-i-r\e as an inti-nni-- 

 diary between the Kmperor and the revolutionary 

 and anti-*'lerieul elements. Like his winter, the I'nn"- 

 06M Mathilde, the widow of Paul l)cmidott'. Jit- al- 

 ways cultivated the soeiety of authors and free- 

 thinkers. In June, 1H5S, lie wus i.Ti|n.intl to the 

 new ministry for Algiers and the colonies, but itoon 

 resigned. In January, iH.V.t, he married the Pmu-e.., 

 Clotilde, daughter of Victor Kmmaiiuel, \\lio was then 

 only King of Sardinia. Owing to incompatibility, 

 addYd to political motives, they separated after eight- 

 een years of married life. When the Kmperor adopted 

 an anti-Austrian policy, and declared war for de- 

 liberation of Italy, Prince Napoleon sought to become 

 the leader of a Liberal jtolicy for France, delivering 

 speeches in the Senate on the temporal power ot' the 

 Pope, and in Corsica on ]>olitifal liberty that created 

 a great sensation. .Soon the Emperor changed his 

 mind again and disavowed his cousin's ui/mions, 

 whereupon Jerome resigned his seat in the Council 

 of State and his upj)intmeiit as president of the com- 

 mission for the Kxposition of IM;;. He had previ- 

 ously presided over that of ls.V>. He had strength- 

 ened the popular estimate of his lack of IHTSUHU] 

 courage by declining, in Isiil.to tight a duel with 

 the Due d'Aumalc after attacking the Orleans princes 

 in the Senate. Louis Napoleon called on him airain 

 for aid when relations with Germany became strained, 

 sending him to seek allies in South (iermain. Austria, 

 and the Balkan countries und Turkey. Alter his re- 

 turn he hud a part in securing the partial adoption, 

 in IM'I'.I. of the system of parliamentary rovcriimcnt 

 and ministerial responsibility, by cxertmg himself to 

 carry the reform further and make a clean sweep of 

 the detested oltieiul clique identified with 



methods. This brought him into direct collision with 

 Rouher, the " Vice- Kmperor." After the Liberal Ol- 

 livier ministry had failed to avert the (tcmian war 

 his influence was gone. During the war he was in 

 Italy, whither the Emperor had sent him. according 

 to his own statement, for the purpose of persuading 

 Victor Emmanuel to take sides with France. His ub- 

 Bence from the field of battle was elloiiL'h to prevent 

 him from receiving the support from -the army that 

 was necessary for the realization of the hope of his 

 friends that ne would succeed the dc]H.sed EmiHTor. 

 Prince Bismarck hotly denied that he ever thought 

 of supporting Prince .leromc for the succession, or 

 even the reirciicy. In the earlv days lie was \ cry 

 unpopular, and vet was dreaded by M. Thiers. who 

 hud him urrestcd and expelled after he had sought to 

 gain a political footing in Corsica and was caught in 

 a Bonapartist gathering at Millemont. Allowed to 

 return by MacMahon. his first public act was to pro- 

 pose an alliance of Bonapartists and Republican* 

 au'uinst the Bourbons. He had an open quarrel with 

 the Prince Imperial and the chiefs ot the Bonapartist 

 party, and was defeated at Ajuecio li\ M. Koiiher, 

 out was L'ivcii the seat on account of tlie hitter's po- 

 litical disqualifications. In the Chamber he attacked 

 the Clericals, by which he enraged the liiirht without 

 conciliating the Left. He was one of the ."' 

 opposed Broglie and MacMahon in the criis 

 In the next election at A.jaccio he was lx-at 

 Baron lluussmann. His rupture with the Jionajartr 

 ists was intensified by his sharp attacks on the pant 



