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Whs TRAQI&BY ©/ EMPIRE
'T^HE victim- which .11-.-. •• • • . this
article was made in i x ;n [1 tells
at a glance the tragedy of the
ri .'. boose <■! Austria. The young
■ ndnajui the left of the picture is "uns.v put
• Ptanx." the Austrian emperor, in the heyday
pouth. a >rr.iivt'ui, buoyant figure whx-h even in
■■ M-cras to i-,-v. t-v a . use of personal n u
rn Now be is an Id nan nd still much beloved
- himself and Cor what be has Buffered.
•on bo boose has fa:<- laid such a be v hand as
tat ol the Hapsburgs. Again look .r the pc-
Bes-.de the
■ • r stand s
• •.! r v mug m n.
mif< rm is that
a admiral in he
trian navy He
: the emperor's
■ linger ! the r.
V. isinsili in, before
eyes Fate, in
- turnine guise
• : ■': Napo>
I ingled an-'th
• • .1 empire,
: \!< x.o', and
- Eter a brief
mr [n I here, was
b! • Eh side him
h:s \v:fe, the
r ■>.-. Carlotta,
• wen befi re the
final " - ft Iy of
■ ..rt-t-r
• and
. . . . _ •■ .v. v : — v
I with
I I .:nk.
On 1 ■ . ■ ■
■ . • ther with
• in her
■ Ru
. the crown
I A b tria,
•• ..
■ g in i *>'j.
H her. the
- Elizabeth.
■. • ■-. i
'.. ...:.-.:<• at
in -• ■ -
■ ■ - [898.
the 1 ■ :"•- "■ ' ■■■'.■ •"'-.• uple. Archduke
i ■ tries and Ar bduchess Sophia, the pan n1 -
• • • •- ■ r; the Ar '„::..••-, Louis Victor and
L tad the little Princess Cisela. <iai:^ht^r
: tuperar and empvess. a:;.' who grew up to
■ • ■ • ■.: : rince regi at of Bavaria.
The list •■: tragedies which bave affected the Imperial
• ■. 1 tria is, however, '■•.i-.i longer than the
• ■ I :. • p en. Ar b Luloe L tdidaus was shot in
the siu:r.::.^ field. Prince Louis <>f Trani and An h
duke John wens drowned. Another tragedy affect*
ing ■ ■ • ■ • tl Esnuly was the awful Eate of the
en • • ' ■• -. - :;e Duches •■ I Alencon, who was
ned t death in 1897 in the Paris charity bazaar
Am •■ ' ■ a the 1 tctans. Pate first 1 i its hand
npon Masdmlian. At the time that the picture was
t r,.en he bad been married a year. His wife was
ess Mar-.a Carlotta A:ri<-lia, daughter of Kin^
L«-< >:•■ Id I ■ BY iginm. She was only seventeen at
the time of her m rriage, tall, beautiful an<l gracefnl,
■ tad -■■■■ ■• French, German, English. Spanish
I
1-. [86s N p Icon 111. proposed to Austria and
; ..•.■■•■.:••. illi nee to collect from
'.;. . •.-. irmed ' • " iin debts due from that
• ■ •■ allies landed upon Mexican soil in
: . [86a sad iftei ght r.g deposed the gov
■ ■■• ■•• • |oam In Septei ■r. 1863. and accordV
■. • ipiansmai ' j the French emperor, a Mexican
■ ■ :: ippeared before llaximilian at Miramar,
■ .-. ; - ■ : tendered him the Mexican
!i- ■ ts in iml itious man, but lacked judg
er he was not rich, and the emoluments
■ • ■• ■ ■ -. ■: him H> wife, too. was dazzled
v ■ • ■ ■ ■■•. and it i- not unlikely that be was
•r in his fin-ii decision. At all
■ thoug • irarned • lt■■::;.-•l t ■■::;.-• the enterprise
• •■ • ■ • • rties who h d been sent to Mexico
• • • gate ■ i report on "ht- true state ol ffairs
. be kcoepted, on conditjon, however, that be
;be elected by tb • ■ • ■ This duly trans
• ■ ! But the chnioe was decepi • — it w- s not 'he
• .-. : • •■■.: • - ion "i the popular will; tor the
[ v\;>tßOß
PUHCB J'JStPH
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for MAY 82, 1904
By GrtsjiSttsw Kolblb©
•■ I y the French military authorities,
and his veterans as inspect rs of
•n.
1° rownwas ' T to Maximilian
at Hiram r. 1 ras administered, and the im
perial flag of Mexico w .s unfurled from the castle tower
*nd greeted by dilute fr m the ships in the harbor.
Space forbids thai ■• heartrending story of
Emperor Maximilian
CaOWM ll J kl.\<_l kLbOLI'H
Princess Gisela
the Mexican tragedy be t"M here Apparently wel
■ mcd with open arms, the imperial couple soon \\<-re
to learn that their regime was upheld by foreign
bayonets. The republic would not down, Juarez,
Dia^ and their followers waged an incessant warfare
from their mountain fastnesses. The Civil war once
over, the Unit" d States massed an army of sixty thou
sand men under Sheridan on the Rio Grande, and deliv
ered to the Freni '..■ mj • r^ran ultimatum which caused
him, rather than risk a war with the United States, to
withdraw the French troops from Mexico. In Novem
ber, [866, the United States, ignoring the claims of
Maximilian, appointed a minister "to the republican
government of Mexico, of which Mr. Juarez is presi
dent."
This was the beginning of the end. The French
ps out of the way, the republican ranks swelled
like a river in the spring. Maximilian finally was
besieged at Querei ro, and betrayed by Lopez was
taken prisoner. Then E\!T"!>e received a lesson in
South American military justice which it never has
forgotten. Not a European court bat believed that
Maximilian simply would be exiled and would return
safe and sound to .Austria. The Mexican authorities
knew however, that ex:l>-s were the most dangerous
plotters; and in spite of a protest thai went up from
all Europe, Maximilian and bis grnerals, Miramon
and M« v ■-. were, op June 19, ii v'> 7v '>7 stood up Ix.-f<re
throe firing squa Is and shot to death.
Carlotta h;.d p ne to Europe to seek aid for Maxi
mili; n's cause. Before the final tragedy her m:nd.
subjected to too great a strain, gave way !!■ ••:,
]»-h<-v.:vj herself still to I*- empress of Mexico, she h s
all these years maintained a mock court at the
secluded country seat in Belgium, where she is
kept under surveillance, i.-> a sad story that often has
ljeen told. „
*
The death of Maximilian ends one chapter in the
tragedy of Francis Joseph's reign; the murder of
Crown Prince Rudolph another. There are various
versions of the .itfair. But in all of them figure the
same woman, the beautiful young Baroness Marie
y. • er i, who either shot herself or was shot by someone
else before or immediately after he was killed. Both
I 5S CaBLOTTA
Ari.MIjIKF
•r .-■ dies occurred at a hunting '• |
rling, near Baden, twelve
1:" :n Vienna.
It was given out that Rudolph had
of ipopl< \'\\ md V name was not mentioned.
• hysicians refused to sign the de i
cate, and thus the truth, or rather the se
Bions of it, gradually came out.
U generally i i p ted as fact that Rudolph and
Marie ■ :■• : und ther. One story is
Marie's br ther, having !earn< d of his sister's relations
with the ■ . I the latter the alternative
of fighting .t duel
or committing >ui
cide; that Rudolph
chose the 1. tter
that he and thi
oness resolved v
die top^t her.
that the Mey<
tragedy was
carrying out of thei
pact. Other
that it was at d
at ifeyerKng tha
Marie's brot he
learned of her • i
ence at the I
and ki l
crown prii
blow • •
with a cl
bottle. Then
dead prii
borne upstair
his r
Marie
- ■
first. • •
to the I '
■. ■ M
■
Dear 1 - 1
weQ an .
Strvus, t
Dear Mot r— ld wil ' . ph. V.' I
P. S
The curious postsci i Yetsera 1 letter
.
whom the ]
ades. The postsci ■ us a
for love, would '
From what
r at Meyerling •■ :
i^.>, was one test traj
ry of a i ' '
■
te the wife
I :V.
'■ r of the E
•
ber. iBqB. When, in i - . I barely
Prince Ma xim
■ r ir of Ausi
.
of h«-r family, an
eror came 1
I
■
her.
What eemed uch a
after a few yeai ■■■.■.■■
■
her-in-law,
lies ■ 'i An her She
sionatelv fond
t !u"' >ne for ti ■ D
channel in search of tier
fay' • ■ r 'lr t' i hounds a li\
and Meath. Later in life a nervous affection
pelled her to gi ■■ :■ th( ■■ ri to which she wa
y, passionately devoted. She •.■(•!■: no part in
[asked nothing more uf Vienna than to be
ue.
IDI XX
AKHOUU
f RAM< I . I_HAM i
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