Excerpt from Queen Hortense and Her Friends, Vol. 1 of 2: 1783-1837 The same might be said of a proportion, at least, of the sorrows of most men and women but it will be for the reader to determine whether amongst bien petits malheurs should be classed Hortense's most unhappy marriage, forced upon her at eighteen; the deaths of two out of her three sons; that of her only brother, the object of her passionate affection, in the prime of life; the repudiation of the mother she loved; and the downfall of the Empire with all it ...
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Excerpt from Queen Hortense and Her Friends, Vol. 1 of 2: 1783-1837 The same might be said of a proportion, at least, of the sorrows of most men and women but it will be for the reader to determine whether amongst bien petits malheurs should be classed Hortense's most unhappy marriage, forced upon her at eighteen; the deaths of two out of her three sons; that of her only brother, the object of her passionate affection, in the prime of life; the repudiation of the mother she loved; and the downfall of the Empire with all it represented to her, accompanied by lifelong exile and separation from home and friends. It has been no part of my purpose to exonerate her from blame. But if she sinned, she suffered for it; and for the faults she committed the reckoning was heavy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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