DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE.
AMOiraST the grim catalogue of deaths and disasters which dSily "riaoh u« bj telegram there is none that has caused such a profound »ensation or such' genuin* sorrow as the news of the melancholy end of tht son of the Third Napolbon, the hope of the Bonapartasts, and the last flower of French chiTalry. Unlike the generality of princes, the young Louis was ho feather-bed soldier, and although it was the fashion of some to sneer at his "baptism of fire," the young cadet 'has sinee 'given, ample. evidence he preferred the red cloth of the soldier to the purple velvet of the King. For him the profession he had ohosen was no. child's play; and the pleasures of the ball-room wer* abandoned for- the duties of the camp, until m. martial, athletic, and all other exercises which proclaim the perfect man, he owned no superior. When the war with Zulu broke out, he was amongst the first, to Tolnnteer for the fray, and his dashing rash-, ness led him to bU death. On the first of June he was out with a reconnoitering parcy, when the little band was surprised, and the young Prince fell beneath the bullet of : a Zulu rebel. With him will pale for efer the: star of hope which •hdne so brightly m the' Imperial flrmanent ; and ere two centuries'thall pass, the name of NAPOiIOK, like, that of Okomwbh, will be but a thing of the past" ..■ _
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 51, 25 June 1879, Page 2
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