A NEW NAPOLEON.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2005, 12 March 1914, Page 8

A NEW NAPOLEON.

SON FOR THE fBENCH PBB- ". T-MDEK. Prinsosa Victor Napoleon recently gave birth to a mi t to bo christened louts Napoleon- Tho bow little- Prince nia-yono (lay pia.y a very im.Tortaut pari in France aju.l ilcma- ■ partisih ever combs to" tlio front ajraiii. His father. Prince Victor, is the Pretender, to tho Imperial throne, and 'Mi' occupied that position oyer "since tho death of 'tho Prince imperial in 1?70. Be': would succeed to- tho tteonee-f, the. First Napoleon through' 'tlio' latter's bioth&r Jerome, King of Westphalia, who was Pritteo Victor's grandfather The fetter's father was Priisco Nari.o-"Pten-Pfen" who said of hiihsalf.qn his deathbed, "I could succeed in nothing, not even in dyiiig." Air<l yet to niany Prin«o Jfapoleoii has always stecid as tho ctever'ost Bonaparto aife.r hisutwls. • Ho foresaw, tho disasters-of IS7O, and- had 'h& been the adviser'- ii> stead of the antagonist of Naptdcott.lJl, the .(townfall of thfS Second Empire might have- boon averted. *

The He* Prince, should ho ever live to disturb Europe as.a potential Napolejon IV, would hftvo tlvfe advantage, of iiisucntial ties with reigning houses. $is mother is the dftMghtot of the late Kin* Leopold of tliQ Belgians. Bis maternal grandmother was a Princes of the lipase of Savoy. His father has lived all these. years peacefully in his mftHsio.tt in 'tile Avenue Louise, at- Brussels, and is Credited with .no very great desire to ascend an Imperial throne.