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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
3
The excerpt recounts a lengthy saga featuring Francois, Alixe, Pietro, and Prince Louis Napolean. Amid political schemes, escape attempts, and battlefield tension, Francois hopes for personal happiness with Alixe while navigating loyalty to comrades and the looming Napoleonic power plays.
Francois Beaupre leads the third artillery in a daring push toward the arsenal at Boulogne to rescue De Persigny. The plan hinges on instant, decisive action over orders as the army campaigns for a new Napoleonic republic. Francois weighs duty against fate, choosing to seize the moment for the Emperor’s cause.
In Boulogne on a Sunday dawn, Louis Napoleon and his followers wake before light. The trumpet from the Austerlitz barracks signals action as sixty artillerymen guard the gate and the regiment stands in the yard, awaiting the attack on Colonel Vaudrey.
In a chaotic barrack yard the Prince Louis Napoleon faces a hostile crowd after a premature public show of support. Francois Beaupre, loyal to the Emperor, delivers news of a final arsenal capture and is mortally wounded. Louis Bonaparte consoles him, granting him the title Chevalier Beaupre and declaring him a marshal as the once hopeful uprising ends in tragedy.
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