A VENTURESOME EMPRESS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 775, 26 March 1910, Page 11

A VENTURESOME EMPRESS.

The ex-Empress Eugenie was in Paris during, the whole of' the • flood time, staying _at the Continentel Hotel, which she declined to leave. ( M. Lotti, manager of tho hotel.,'said:' "The ex-Empress is tho bravest lady Tve ever seen. We had 350 people in the.hotel, and as soon as they heard that the cellars were flooded most of. them were seized with'panic and fled, but the-Empress, when informed that the basement of the hotel "was under water, sent for me and asked if there was any. danger. She said she did not mind being isolated from the rest of Paris, and- if the worst came to the worst she was prepared, to take her departure from ' the hotel oh a raft; but what she wanted to know was whether there was any likelihood of the building collapsing. I gave her Majesty the assurance which the architect had given mo, that thero was ho reason to, be anxious as' to the stability'of the building. ..Then, said the Empress, laughing, 'I will remain where lam, and do as they do in Venice,: provided ybu can guarantee that we will always have enough to eat.' During the whoje period of the floods she has had friends to lunch and dinner almost every day, and, despite her oighty-four years, she has gone-out on every occasion when tho weather was fine tohave-a look at the flooded quar:ters of the city." •,

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