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 especially tamed, and to her that the homage of hearts was offered. She has since become a mother, and on the Imperial Prince to which she gave birth on the 16th. of March, 1856, hang, perhaps, the destinies of millions. Salvos of artillery announced his birth throughout France, and the whole of Europe responded in messages of congratulation to his father, who sees in him the dearest wish of his heart fulfilled, in the direct continuance of the Napoleon dynasty. Will it prove a blessing or a curse to that long-harassed and distracted country? This is a question for futurity to answer.

EUPHEMIA, FLAVIA ÆLIA MARCIA, married to the Emperor Justin the First, in 618. She was originally a slave, of what country is not known; but she was mistress to Justin before he married her. She died before the emperor, about the year 623, without children. She owed her elevation to her fidelity, and the sweetness of her disposition.

EURYDICE, Illyrian lady, is commended by Plutarch, for applying herself to study, though already advanced in years, and a native of a barbarous country, that she might be enabled to educate her children. She consecrated to the muses an inscription, in which this circumstance is mentioned.

EUSEBIA, AURELIA, wife of Constantius, Emperor of the East, was a woman of genius and erudition, but strongly addicted to the Arian heresy; in support of which she exerted her influence over her husband, which was considerable. Few of the empresses had been so beautiful or so chaste. She prevailed on Constantius to give his sister Helena to Julian, and to name him Caesar. Many virtues are allowed her by historians; among others, those of compassion and humanity. She left no children, and died in 360, much regretted by her husband.

EUSEBIA, of St. Cyr, or St. Saviour, at Marseilles, is said by French writers to have cut off her nose, like the Abbess of Coldingham, in this country, to secure herself from ravishers, and her nuns are said to have followed her example. This took place in 731, when the Saracens invaded Provence. The catastrophe of the tale in both countries is, that the ladies were murdered by the disappointed savages. These tales may not be wholly true, yet that they were considered probable, shews the awful condition of society in those dark ages.

EUSTACHIUM, of Paula, a Roman lady of ancient family, was learned in Greek and Hebrew, as well as in the Latin language, so that she could read Hebrew psalms fluently, and comment ably upon them. She was many years a disciple of St. Jerome, and followed him in his journeys to different places. He speaks of her in high terms in his epistles, and in the life of St. Paula. She lived in a monastery at Bethlehem, till she was forced from it by a kind of persecution said to have been excited by the Pelagians. She died about 419.