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We all know the sequel—the defeat and capture of the

Emperor at Sedan, and the escape of tho Empress to England In Sir John Burgoyne's yacht. "I ceased to live in 1870" was a saying attributed to her in later days. Nevertheless, her long secluded life in England since that distant date has won her the respect of all for her unquenchable spirit and her dignity. In 1879 she suffered a terrible bereavement in the death of her son, the Prince Imperial, in the Zulu War. When the Great War broke out the Empress Eugenie established a hospital for wounded officers in her house at. Farnborough, and it was characteristic of the magnanimity of her mellow age that she rejoiced as keenly as any Republican of to-day could have done in the recovery and the glorious achievements of France.