Wissembourg. A small town in Alsace. See note
10. Napoléon. Louis Napoléon was the son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, brother of Napoléon I. He was born in 1808. He
was elected Président of the French Republic in Deœmber, 1848. On his surrender to the Germans, at Sedan, he abdicated in favor of his son and was sent to Germany as a pri^ner of war. At the close of the war he retired to England, where he resided until his death in 1873.