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1a1." 23, 1939 p-.,e Niae

--NEXT!!'!' Keeps What She Gets I By W. E. DiU The Story of World (Continued from page one.) French were" a gay people, fond of dancing and light wines." As a major premise the statement was misleading. The French are a tough race; dramatic, but mtll- tant and acquisitive. Their tlrst g rea t dramatic spree was the , brought on because a spendthrift government couldn't avoid der- icits. They came out of it fight- (Acme photo.) ing all , and willingly. Modem Algerian troope-pan of Frcmce'. colonial army_n parade in Paria. Nap 0 leo n understood the French. He stood before a starv- Bugeaud to· conquer the Alge- This usurper, who was faintly more under the domination of ing of 37,000 at the start rians. The final surrender did ridiculous even to his subjects the empress. She judged Ineor- of his brilliant career and in- not occur until 1847. It was too (they called him Moustachu, a rectly that the empire, if it was formed them that victory, sup- late to add much prestige to the comment on his whiskers), re- to endure much longer, had to plies, wealth lay across the reign of the citizen , as he mained for twenty years the make a spectacular success. She mountains in . When victory called himself. The next year most important figure in Euro, guessed incorrectly t the was achieved he looted Italy of the Parisians were again on the pean politics. He stuck his nose French could go to with '\ 1 her treasures and forced on barricades battling the Orleans into every quarrel. He negotiat- and win. rr) \ r'"~~fl , Austria a treaty that guaranteed soldiery and the king had to ab- ed and plotted otllciously. He Bismarck, the chancellor of , t /fF~ 1 to France the territories the rev- dicate and fiee to . He made several little , and Prussia, had much better tnror- \ "Honey, I didn't ~ that. You know I didn't!" olutionary had won. lacked the touch of drama that one fairly large one in the Cri· mation. He knew that his gov- This is the fourth phone call from the same party When, by good fortune and the the French demand. He carried mea, from which he escaped ernment had built up a magnif- for Harry, on chair number four, and business in force of genius, he seized power, an umbrella! creditably. By aiding Cavour in icent army. He knew, too, that the small town barber shop is temporarily at a formed a new aristoc- Three in thirty -three the unifying of Italy he obtained Eugenie was a tyro in politics standstill. racy. Its members were men of years had added only to and for France. and the was ill ability, and he guaranteed their the possessions of France. That On the old Napoleonic model equipped for modern warfare. loyalty to himself by making country was, of course, a great he established a court, magnif· The empress wanted to whip them rich. He took the lands prize. It was close to home and Ieent but not quite real. Its and save her ; of his enemies and set kings over 'capable of producing great agri· habitues were men and women Bismarck wanted to humble them. Bonapartes occupied the cultural wealth-a million and with backgrounds of family serv- France to make his country, of , of , of a quarter square miles in which ice with Napoleon I. Legitimate with the rest of the German Westphalia. Murat the innkeep- 7,000,000persons, including 500,· European royalty recognized it, 1and s incorporated, the first er's son became king of . 000 French, now live. but shied away from it in a power on the continent. Much of Italy itself was attached The second , which social sense. The was A dispute arose over the suc- to the Napoleonic empire and followed Louis Philippe, had a refused a princess allied to a cession of the of Spain. governed directly by prefects short and precarious existence. throne for a bride. Eventually Prussia had a candidate, and so sent out from . France didn't quite know what he married Eugenie de Montijo, had France. Artfully Bismarck Never since the days of Char- she wanted, and a new Bona- a tall, red-hatred lady of the arranged things so that the tad- lemagne had there been such an minor Spanish nobility. ing Napoleon, listening to Queen empire as Napoleon governed in She dressed spectacularly. She Crinoline's advice, declared war 1810. It was too great, too cum- set the modes for Europe in the in July, 1870. bersome. The man at the top days of the huge hoop skirts. The campaIgns that followed was inadequate. He wasted his The French dubbed her Queen were swift. In early September resources in men and money Crinoline. Together she and the the emperor, with more than striving to conquer the rar- emperor governed more royally 100,000 men, surrendered at spreading steppes of . than real royalty could have Sedan. Napoleon was sent into Fortune deserted him, and he done it. They even felt that they Germany as a prisoner, and the was on in 1814. A year had assured a to France empress strove to carry on a later the and Wa· when their one son, the regency for her 14-year-old son. terloo ushered him to St. Helena. imperial, nicknamed Lou -Lou, France would have none of this Napoleon was gone for good. was born. and deposed Napoleon. The great empire shrank until In the beginning Napoleon III. German successes continued. it was no larger than it had been was successful in his foreign ven- Paris fell after a long and ter- in the days of the unlucky Louis tures. His armies aided in quell- rible . King W111iam of XVI. Once again the lesson had ing a revolt against Turkey in Prussia, in the of Ver- been rubbed in-conquered lands Syria. The Suez sailles, imposed a harsh peace. must be retained by force. canal was start- The provinces of and e • • ed by De Les- , with a population of seps under his (Acme photo.) 1,500,000, we ret a ken from At the close of the Napoleonic patronage. His France and incorporated in Ger- Nati.e bcuaar in city of Tum., me· wars France had little in the sol die r sen· many, and the French were way of colonies. Her only Afri· tropoli. of one on Frcmce'. Africcm colonie •• 'gaged in an compelled to pay an indemnity can possession was the tiny trad- informal war of a billion dollars. ing post of Senegal. North Af· parte, clever, unprincipled, and with China in So the second empire ended. rica was ruled by the Barbary inordinately ambitious, appeared 1860 and on the Napoleon wen t to England, pirates. She did have a discov- on the scene. NAPOLEON way home took where he died a few years later. erer's claim on Madagascar, but Prince Louis Napoleon was over and occupied Cochin-China, Lou-Lou was killed while fight· had made no movement to oc- the name. He was the son of first of the great Asiatic de- ing with the British against the igh school youth, induIgiDgin one cupy and pacify that island, largo Louis, the brother whom the pendencies of France. savage Zulus in 1879. The Em· of those athletic hair trims, being er by itself than the homeland. great Napoleon had seated on But an ambitious attempt to press Eugenie, like a historic shown the beautiful rear view in Canada had been seized by the the throne of Holland. His give the status of a ghost, lived on until 1920. DJirror. British long before, and St. mother was Hortense de Beau- French possession ended dismal- Pierre and Miquelon were the harnais, daughter of Josephine, ly. The little Napoleon decided •• • tiny slices she held in North the first Napoleonic consort. He to seat a puppet emperor on the The French were only defeat- America. In the West Indies was 40 when the second repub- Mexican throne and persuaded ed 'in 1870; they were not de- she owned and Gua- lic was proclaimed. the Archduke Maximilian of stroyed. The indemnity was deloupe. For years he had been an Austria to take the place. Then paid in an unbelievably short Five cities t hat make up in Germany, , and he sent an army with Maximll- time and the removed French India had been occupied England. "Napoleonic liberty," ian and his" empress," Carlotta, their army of occupation. But only a few years. France was he insisted, was what the French to Vera Cruz. The British and the war was not forgotten. It occupied by internal troubles and needed. He even found writings Spanish governments had col- can be said that French national exhausted by the Napoleonic of the bigger Napoleon to prove laborated at first, but withdrew consciousness for nearly half a ventures. The Bourbon king that there had been liberty under when they understood Napo- century was dominated by the who had been restored, Louis the old empire. leon's real aim. The original belief that the defeat of Napo- XVIII., was weak and barely Prince Louis Napoleon became idea was they were only to col- leon III. must be avenged. / able to cope with the dissatfsfac- a real nuisance in 1836 when at lect debts from the Mexicans. I The third republic was born of The silent customer and the barber tion of his subjects. he tried to incite the If the hadn't strife. With the Germans st111 who wants to talk. The barber has was no better. garrison to revolt against Louis been busy with the Civil war the in the country, in 1871,there was tried everything. 'Baseball, weather, But France rose courageously Philippe. The attempt failed, bold plan would h a v e .been a c i v i I war. Reds revolted war scares, devaluation of the dollar, when the dey swatted M. Deval. and he was arrested and sent to squelched at once. As it was the against the national assembly WPA,and horrible illnesses,but it's no Algeria was a difficult assign- America. He returned to Eng- French conquered a part of Mex- and fortified parts of Paris. go. Just can't make any headway. ment. Frenchmen fought for land and went on with his plots. ico and set Maximilian in Chao They were attacked and after years under the broiling African When he led a comical expedl- pultepec. But Juarez and his sharp defeated by the sun to impose their on the tlon across the channel in 1840 army kept up their resistance. assembly'S armies. Before they natives. The job was far from he was locked up in the fortress When the Civil war was over gave in the Reds executed many complete when King Charles of Ham, where he remained the United States sternly re- prisoners, including the arch- was deposed in 1830 and suc- until his escape six years later. called the to bishop of Paris, and burned the ceeded by Louis Philippe. The Napoleonic legends were Napoleon's attention. He re- Tuileries, the library of the ):~~. This Louis Philippe was the revlvlng and a romantic seemed called his troops. With them , and other bUildings. son of the duke of Orleans who to the French a needed contrast went Carlotta; Maximilian re- After that the new govern- ~'" had helped stir up the revolution to the stuffiness of the last king. mained to hold on to his imperial ment functioned with a fair de- ,,)?' )v and had voted for the beheading Louis Napoleon ran for president dignity. gree of success. It had many of Louis XVI. (the duke also was of France and received three- In Paris poor Carlotta, know- problems .. Not the least of them guillotined) . He promised to fourths of all the votes. ing what his fate would be, tried was the necessity of combating rule constitutionally after the Less than three years later he to get Napoleon to keep his plots to bring back a , "iV~ mobs which had driven Charles threw ot! the democratic mask pledges. He would not or could with Bourbons, Orleanists, and l ~ out agreed to let him have the and proclaimed himself the Em· not. The Mexican empress went Marty, the small town hot Bonapartists impartially ot!er· throne. number, keeps the barbers peror Napoleon III. He sur- on to to beg the for ing themselves as candidates. and customers in stitches Drab as he was, the new king rounded himself with an unprln- aid. He was kindly but could But France was never again ~whenhe comesin for a hair could not relinquish the African clpled body of advisers. One promise nothing, and Carlotta to endure despotic rulers. Once . ' trim. Knows all the latest adventure without loss of honor. was his half-brother, the Duc de went quite mad in the Vatican. more she had learned that a :<' /owi~racks (from the radio) The situation was serious. The Morny, illegitimate son of Hor- She never recovered. Maximil· nation's land must be protected • .r:. ;and all the new stories. The "H'ya, Mary. H'ya, Bessie,"showing French held the coast towns, but tense and an army . An- ian was captured and executed by her own armed power. One ---kind that start, " hear-~--J boss barber, at chair near door of an able leader, Abd-el-Kader, other was St. Arnaud, a general in Queretaro. of the first acts of the govern- the one about the old country barber emporium, passing had preached a holy war against who had won a reputation for Napoleon's popularity waned ment was to establish universal maid and the Irish paper- the time of day and anything else the invaders. bravery in Algerian campaigns. after that. His physical and military , the sys- hanger?" with friends on the outside. In the end 115,000 soldiers Military power prevented Napo- mental powers became enfeebled tem under which the admirable were sent out under General leon's expulsion. with age and he fell more and (Continued on page ten.) ,