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March 6?Twenty-seventh birthday of Empress Nagako of Japan...
March 6-Birthday of Empress Nagako of Japan...
...news of my father's birth was received by Napoleon at Pultusk, Poland, when he was preparing the campaign that culminated in the victory of Friedland," said Mme. Leon last week. "Napoleon was already thinking of divorcing the childless Empress Josephine, so you can imagine what consequences the news of my father's birth might have had. But what could Napoleon do? Nothing! Marriage with my grandmother was out of the question. . . . He could only give the child the last syllables of his own name, calling him Count Leon...
...true that he favored the return of the Habsburgs to reign in Austria? Did he want to form a separate most Catholic Kingdom of united Austria and Bavaria? Did he want to indemnify the Habsburgs for property confiscated by the Austrian Republic? In Luxemburg had he visited ex-Empress Zita of Austria, as reported, and discussed with her these matters? Deftly Mgr. Seipel avoided the more contentious questions...
...Majesty the Empress in Luxemburg," said he, slowly pulling off his grey silk traveling gloves. "When I learned that she had come to visit the Grand Duchess* it would have been too late to request an audience. I would not have done it in any case, however, because it would have been considered tactless and would have given a wrong impression at the very moment when Austrian Catholics were demanding an investigation of the legitimacy of the confiscation of Habsburg property...