Punch: Punch (32.1857)

210 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [Mrf 23, 1357.

THE SURPRISE AND DELIGHT OE THE GENERAL COMMANDING-IN-CHIEF AT THE SUCCESS OE THE

NEW STRAW STABLES AT ALDERSHOT.

LOUiS NAPOLEON LEGITIMIZED.

| of the press was yet an undiscovered good, and liberty of speech was
still the Visionfery dream, the brain-fever of rnad, bad men. "With Louis

m,„,„„ i i i. f ,i i ■ • er "v ; Napoleon as Lons the Fifteenth; a certain antique haze gathered

r 1 ' ^ETCr, ^Tn?W lf °Ufbt oV^ iegitimacyot Loi isNAPOLEOX. b Fontaineblean; the feeling of the time pervaded even his courtiers,
Could St Denis himself return to the world, head in hand he could for their faces >d lackerednwith the COmPlacencv of the olden time
iiardlj fail to acknowledge the present governor of France, by divine their back.boues bent with the SUppleness of a former a<re. The verv
right of a certain night m December, Emperor or me Fren ch. What , } peasantry raised and emboldened by the work of the

thnlTyT^^^ Th^^toVbeLoUI,S;guulotine, seemed shrunk and dwarfed, and walked or slunk like the

, , mode makes sacred the^ adventurer ot Boulogne ; and 'f th d dd ^ Such is the iriti of the tail

the late special-constable ot St James s Street sits upon his horse mthe^ aud bootmaker. and"so did their genius work when it had

fores ot Fontaiaebleau a legitimate descendant ot St. Lops. Poor ; clothe'd Lorjs Nap0LE0X; the r0vai hunter, in " a green coat with gold
Cou^t Cham core-: He and his pretensions are put nowhere; tiiey { th waistcoat red, the lower part of the dress being white, with
are, in fact, left shivering and naked; tor Lons Napoleon has stolen j hi h' hunti ^ t foe Lat L £ THE Fifteenth, a hanger/and a
he clothes of the ancien regime and Henry the Fifth has not a : ^ compieted the costume." Would the oldest inhabitant of ancient
legitimate rag to cover him. Ihe whole matter, through the con- Stragbour| have known the chivalrous adventurer in such a coat-
scientious columns ot Galtgnam, speaks to Europe Thus it is. _ | ^ B bav8 reCo2nised her Kn%ht of the Eagle in that

The Grand Duke Constantine is taken to Fontaineblean to enjoy a waistcoat-would any London hatter have identified his old customer
ptag-hunt. T\ e are told that when the Muscovy Ambassador became a in that beayer f thc y f hmm IHE FiriEE>-TH ? We think not.
little too rough and ready in his manners even for Queen Elizabeth, ! n theparvmu liad passed away and the representative of the line
|1e ^ irgin Queen of England would get rid of his Excellency by sending of H ^ c gtJd b f -£e imperial Duke Constable or
nun ott with a party to hunt the wild boar m the wood ot Maryleoone. I ilL the russias

WeAarf boars in those days - but Marylebone is now merelya forest p m day of ^ Fontameblean hunt was a great day for France,
oi bricks, and the boars, if not extinct, are scattered Well, to ■ R { d b her ru, she had takeu a great step backwards,

employ the imperial mind ot Russia, Louis N apoleon lately prepared | wh£ther pour „;iewT muter £ to be seen but we fear a jump hi advauce
a stag-hunt. And more,.to recommend the sport with especial grace 1 can be ^ ' t ■ ^ SQ t; ht and ceremonious a dress. Any way,
and unction to his Russian guest, the French Emperor went back a \ .hen the Grvnd Duke Constantine shall next meet Henry the
Utile into those picturesque days, ere \ oltaire dropt vitriolic and i F it wiR doubtless be a subject of some mirth for the Muscovite
from his pen on thepurple ol.royalty, ere Rousseau preached sometlnng , was (it . &caudaloush- said of him that he is given to a joke!) to
like maternity mtc»I ranee, at that time with all her cnildren at wet-nurse. : [n^m u throreless Majesty how the parvenu Louis Napoleon looks

fe^ffiiL°VIS ^°^0XPsat ^r the time 1U thf ,sac}JH °f L°Fks i «»the furbished-up clothes of Louis the Fifteenth,
the tifiELMH. ihe transtormation was so complete that, upon the | 1

word and honour of several veracious courtiers present, France seemed . ---------

to retrograde a century or two, in order to make the illusion perfect. Drown it in a Bowl

For a time, it almost seemed that France—although she had reeled

somewhat under the shock of the tumbling Bastille—had never been dis- [ It is said tha' Sir Charles Napier and Sir Robert Peel have
turbed from under the protecting shadow of the peruque of le grand' sent invitations to Duke Constantine on his visit to England. It
monarque; as though, in very truth, the citizens of France, as in the [is uncertain whether he will go either to Sir Charles or to Sir
days of Louis the Fourteenth, might be put by in a stone-safe, with 1 Robert ; but it is not considered impossible that he will accept a
no trial and no questions permitted to be asked; as though the freedom . shake-down at the mansions of both.