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. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV 1804 Lucien and his wife--The last night in Paris--Madame Lctizia and Joseph--Farewell of Bernadotte--A clainvvank The Empire --A fever of etiquette- A stormy evening--The Marshals of France--Conspiracy of Cadoudal and Pichcgru--Arrests and trial -- Consternation in Paris -- Execution of ...
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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. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV 1804 Lucien and his wife--The last night in Paris--Madame Lctizia and Joseph--Farewell of Bernadotte--A clainvvank The Empire --A fever of etiquette- A stormy evening--The Marshals of France--Conspiracy of Cadoudal and Pichcgru--Arrests and trial -- Consternation in Paris -- Execution of many of accused- Scene between Napoleon and Madame dc Montesson-- Those who were spared--Death of Madame de Montesson. THE departure of Lucien and his wife was deeply regretted by the Bernadottes. The former had returned from Romeonly to find Napoleon inexorable. He would do everything for Lucien if he would sacrifice his wife and declare his children illegitimate; nothing if he refused. Lucien should not live in Europe, or at any rate only in a distant part of it; certainly not in France. Lucien declined to give up his wife and children, or to accept invitations to family festivities where his wife was not invited; and, horrified at the murder of the Duc d'Enghien, he exclaimed to her-- " Alexandrine, he has tasted blood, let us get away." In a fragment left at his death, written in 1837, he says: " The details of this evening, the last I was to pass in France, are ever present to my mind. ... It was Easter-eve, 1804, the four travelling carriages were ready and loaded in the courtyard of the hotel, rue Saint-Dominique. . . . The servants went to and fro, the post-horses were ordered to be harnessed at daybreak. . . . My dear brother Joseph, with a sorrowful expression on his kind, handsome face, was walking with me up and down the long gallery of pictures for which I then had such a passion, and which were to begin to be packed for Rome after my departure. My mother and my wife were sitting on a little sofa by the fire, ... a number of...
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