"Since our disasters, the Prince Imperial grows and stuffs himself in exile, with some devoted servants whose salaries go on as before, and a Spanish mother who teaches him to love France as the most lucrative of the monarchical tobacco-excise offices in Europe. "Recently the Prince Imperial, for the first time, declared his pretension to the throne by thanking the eight Bonapartists, who had hired a smoking compartment upon the Northern Line in order to present their compliments--and their bill--on the occasion of the 15th of August. That was the first act of a Pretender, the cutting of whose teeth still torments him, and whose new pantaloons become too short at the end of eight days. It was this which decided us to write his rather meagre biography. "As to his person, the Prince Imperial is a perfect type of a slobbering aspirant of the eighth order. In his exterior, at least, he does not seem to have derived much from his father; but he has the empty, vain, and silly expression of his mother. He represents sufficiently well one of those married boobies whose insignificance condemns them to live upon their income in a little provincial city, working six hours a day their part of third cornet in a raw philharmonic society, while their wives at home make cuckolds of them with the officers of the garrison. "SUPPLEMENTARY NOTICE. _"Dates to be supplied by the collectors of the Trombinoscope._ "Eugene-Napoleon, attaining his majority March 16th, 1877, demands a settlement from his mother. She confesses to him that of his maternal fortune there remain but thirty-two francs. 'What has become, then,' he asks,'of all the fund which, during the twenty years of papa's empire, was produced by the exemption money of the conscripts for whom substitutes were not obtained, by the buttons which were wanting to the gaiters, and the gaiters which were wanting to the buttons?' 'What has become of it?' said the Empress. 'Do you suppose that, during these seven years past, I have maintained _our_ French journals with my old chignons?' Eugene-Napoleon replied to his mother: 'Then, if I have no longer a sou with which to take Mandarine to the races, hand me one of papa's riding-jackets that I may make a descent at Boulogne, to dethrone Louis Philippe II. He makes a descent at Boulogne, the ---- 18--, with five drunken men and the little Conneau, all disguised as circus staff officers. They put him on his trial; he is convicted the ---- 18--; is pardoned the ---- 18--; repeats the performance the ---- 18--. The Republic having turned out Louis Philippe II., Eugene-Napoleon re-enters France the ---- 18--as simple citizen. The republicans, who are always just so foolish, permit him to be elected deputy the ---- 18--, and president the ---- 18--. He seats himself upon the Republic December 2d, 18--, and re-establishes the Empire the ---- 18--. The social decomposition resumes its course. Vélocipède IV. marries the ---- 18--, a circus girl.