ALLEGED ILL GITIMACY OF THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.
The London correspondent of tlie 'Melbourne Argus' writes as follows : There have always been very queer stories, not to say grave doubts, about the legitimacy of Napoleon lIL, but these have sunk into insignificance before the revelations lately made in Paris respecting the birth of the exEmpress Eugenie. In 1828 ace tain law case was decided in favor of Dona Maria Pilar de Penusande, widow of Don Joaquin Montijo, against her two brothers-in-law, which gave her her late husband's estate for life, notwithstanding that she had been divorced from him, and that their two children were -dead; and it was published in the 'Gazette des Tribunaux' in 1831. The copy was discovered accidentally | in the collection of a Paris lawyer, but all the copies of the same date in the public-libraries are found to have been destroyed. The case was only interesting in the light of subsequent events. It stated that Count Joaquin Montijo died childless in 1823, and everybody knows that the Empress Eugenie waß born in 1826, on the anniversary of the death of the great Napoleon. This hiatus of three years is scarcely to be bridged over. Attention was -first drawn to it in the < Petite Republicaine to which the copy of the old paper was sent by the finder, and the scandal is now all over France. The Bonapartist papers at once published a statement that Madame de Montijo would take legal proceedings against her slanderers, and the exEmpress went so far asto.jdeclare that ; the trial in the ' Gxzette des Tribunaux' was a forgery from beginning to end. Only no steps have heen taken just yet, and, it is whispered, neverwill be.
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Evening Star, Issue 4315, 26 December 1876, Page 1
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291ALLEGED ILL GITIMACY OF THE EMPRESS EUGENIE. Evening Star, Issue 4315, 26 December 1876, Page 1
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