Life — August 24, 1899 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Wuex Prince Napoleon put into the port of Cork, s0 runs the story, the city was presided over by a chief magistrate who was espectally proud of his knowledge of French. Indeed, It was said that this respectable Mayor had a way of oppressing his less highly cultured fetlow-townsmen by an anxtety to parade bis mastery of the French of Paris. The Mayor suggested that a public reception should be given to Prince Napoleon, in order to testify the sympathy which true Irishwen ought to have with the peopte of France and the house of Bonaparte, The proposal was eagerly adopted, and the Mayor, as was to be expected, undertook to deliver the address. The cei was duly arranged, and Prince Napoleon appeared at the right tne. Then bis worship, the Mayor, stepped forward and delivered a long and eloquent address, spoken without the help of any manuscript, 1a what the bystanders assumed to be the native tongue of the illustrious visitor, Prince Napoleon listened with what Hans Brettman calls “a beautiful, solemn smile ? on his face, and when the address was over he delivered his reply in the mst correct and dueat Eugitsh, In hts opening seutences he thankesl the meeting for the generous reception given to him, and the Mayor of Cork for the speech to which he had Justiistened, Me felt sure, he sald, that that speech expressed the most kindly and generous sentiments of welcome; but he added his deep regret that, as be never had had any opportunity of studying the noble Irist language, he was not able to follow the words of the worthy chief magistrate. 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