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The Life of the Empress Josephine; First Wife of Napoleon

Phineas Camp Headley

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. FRANCE AND JOSEPHINE AT THIS PEEIOD OF HISTORY.--REJOICINGS OF THE PEOPLE. IMPORTANT EVENTS. TOUR TO MILAN. NAPOLEON VISITS BRIENNE. WITH JOSEPHINE CROSSES THE ALPS. PLAIN OF MARENGO. THE CORONATION AT MILAN. SOJOURN THERE. NEWS OF PROBABLE HOSTILITIES. JOSEPHINE AT GENOA. THE RAPID TRAVEL TO PARIS. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.--JOSEPHINE REGENT OF FRANCE. LETTER TO CAMBACERES. NAPOLEON'S VICTORIES. ARRIVAL OF A COURIER. MARRIAGE OF EUGENE. JOSEPHINE'S LETTER UPON THE EXPECTED MARRIAGE OF HER NIECE STEPHANIE DE BEAUHARNAIS. THE ROYAL FAMILY. DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS. BONAPARTE'S HABITS AND ILLNESS. HUNTING EXCURSIONS. HATRED OF BONAPARTE'S RELATIVES TOWARDS JOSEPHINE. HER KINDNESS IN RETURN. NAPOLEON'S MOVEMENTS. There is that stirring interest in the position of France immediately after the restoration of monarchy, and also of Josephine, which belongs to the consummation of a long series of events--a point of observation from which we can look back and mark intelligently the deep and decisive causes lying below the agitations that revolutionized governments, and changed the aspect of the world. We gaze not only upon the past as from an illumined height, but almost prophetically read the future in the same broad light. In the very capital where four years before the blind Polyphemus, of a horrid democracy, had declared with ghastly triumph and bacchanal shouts, "Royalty is abolished forever!" the joyous salutation rang over assembled thousands, and a throne of imposing grandeur, " Long live the Emperor!" Within the temple-courts where altar and cross were demolished, and "There is no God," was unblushingly uttered amid the vilest blasphemies, the venerable Pope reverently stood, and pronounced the benediction of Heaven; while the...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life of the Empress Josephine; First Wife of Napoleon. To get started finding The Life of the Empress Josephine; First Wife of Napoleon, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. FRANCE AND JOSEPHINE AT THIS PEEIOD OF HISTORY.--REJOICINGS OF THE PEOPLE. IMPORTANT EVENTS. TOUR TO MILAN. NAPOLEON VISITS BRIENNE. WITH JOSEPHINE CROSSES THE ALPS. PLAIN OF MARENGO. THE CORONATION AT MILAN. SOJOURN THERE. NEWS OF PROBABLE HOSTILITIES. JOSEPHINE AT GENOA. THE RAPID TRAVEL TO PARIS. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.--JOSEPHINE REGENT OF FRANCE. LETTER TO CAMBACERES. NAPOLEON'S VICTORIES. ARRIVAL OF A COURIER. MARRIAGE OF EUGENE. JOSEPHINE'S LETTER UPON THE EXPECTED MARRIAGE OF HER NIECE STEPHANIE DE BEAUHARNAIS. THE ROYAL FAMILY. DOMESTIC ARRANGEMENTS. BONAPARTE'S HABITS AND ILLNESS. HUNTING EXCURSIONS. HATRED OF BONAPARTE'S RELATIVES TOWARDS JOSEPHINE. HER KINDNESS IN RETURN. NAPOLEON'S MOVEMENTS. There is that stirring interest in the position of France immediately after the restoration of monarchy, and also of Josephine, which belongs to the consummation of a long series of events--a point of observation from which we can look back and mark intelligently the deep and decisive causes lying below the agitations that revolutionized governments, and changed the aspect of the world. We gaze not only upon the past as from an illumined height, but almost prophetically read the future in the same broad light. In the very capital where four years before the blind Polyphemus, of a horrid democracy, had declared with ghastly triumph and bacchanal shouts, "Royalty is abolished forever!" the joyous salutation rang over assembled thousands, and a throne of imposing grandeur, " Long live the Emperor!" Within the temple-courts where altar and cross were demolished, and "There is no God," was unblushingly uttered amid the vilest blasphemies, the venerable Pope reverently stood, and pronounced the benediction of Heaven; while the...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life of the Empress Josephine; First Wife of Napoleon. To get started finding The Life of the Empress Josephine; First Wife of Napoleon, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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