, on the
22d of July, 1832. Commenting upon this event, Louis Blanc writes:

"In a calm, lovely day, there was seen advancing through a
perfectly silent crowd, along the streets of that capital of
Austria which once looked down abashed and terror-struck
beneath the proud eagles of Napoleon, a hearse, preceded by a
coach and a few horsemen. Some attendants walked on either
side, bearing torches. When they arrived at the church, the
court commissioner, in pursuance of a remarkable custom of
the country, proceeded to enumerate the names and titles of
the deceased. Then, knocking at the door, he solicited for
the corpse admission to the temple. The princes and
princesses of the house of Austria were there awaiting the
body, and attended it to the vault, into which the fortune of
the Empire then descended forever. The death of the son of
Napoleon occasioned no surprise among the nations. It was
known that he was of a very sickly constitution, and besides
poison had been spoken of. Those who think every thing
possible to the fear or ambition of princes had said, _He
bears too great a name to live._"

The attempts subsequently made by Louis Napoleon for the restoration
of the Empire, which failed at Strasbourg and Bologne, but which
finally gave the Empire to France through twenty years of
unparalleled prosperity, we have not space here to record. They will
be found minutely detailed in Abbott's History of Napoleon III.

In reference to these unsuccessful attempts, Louis Blanc writes: "Of
the two sons of the ex-king of Holland, Napoleon's brother, the
elder, we have seen, had perished in the Italian troubles, by a death
as mysterious as premature. The younger had retired to Switzerland,
where he applied himself unceasingly to the preparation of projects
that flattered his pride and responded to the most earnest
aspirations of his soul.

"Nephew to him whom France called the Emperor, the emperor _par
excellence_ (imperator), and condemned to the vexations of an obscure
youth; having to avenge his proscribed kindred, while himself exiled
by an unjust law, from a country he loved, and of which it might be
said, without exaggeration, that Napoleon still covered it with his
shadow--Louis Bonaparte believed himself destined at once to uphold
the honor of his name, to punish the persecutors of his family, and
to open to his disgraced country some way to glo