The Private Life of Napoleon, Volume 1R. Bentley and Son, 1894 |
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13 Vendémiaire Ajaccio Années de Napoléon Army of Italy artillery asked Auxonne Avrillon Barras Beauharnais Bonaparte's Bourrienne Brienne brother command Committee of Public Compiègne Constant Consul Correspondence of Napoleon Corsica Coston Court daughter divorce Duchesse d'Abrantès Emperor Empress father favour feelings France French Genoa give happiness heart Holland honour Hortense Hortense de Beauharnais husband Ibid Imperial Jerôme Jerôme's Joseph Joseph Bonaparte Joséphine's Jung Junot King letter from Napoleon Lewis Goldsmith Lieutenant Louis Lucien Bonaparte Madame Maria-Louisa Marmont marriage married Mdlle Mémoires de Lucien Mémoires du Roi Metternich Minister Monsieur mother Napoleon to Joséphine never Paris pleasure Pontécoulant Premières Années Prince Eugène Prince Metternich Princess Queen received Roederer Roi Jérôme says Ségur sent Souvenirs Spain Stendhal Tallien Temps thought tion took Toulon Tuileries Valence Vie de Napoléon wife wish woman writes wrote young
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Page 449 - Friendship is but a name. I love nobody. I do not even love my brothers: perhaps Joseph, a little, from habit, and because he is my elder; and Duroc, I love him too; but why? — because his character pleases me: he is stern and resolute, and, I believe, the fellow never shed a tear.
Page 407 - If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk.
Page 288 - What was the cause of that malady ? " — " Uneasiness of mind . . . grief."— "You believe that?
Page 289 - You say that she was in grief, from what did that arise ? ' ' From passing events, Sire, from your Majesty's position last year. ' ' Ah, she used to speak of me, then ? ' ' Very often. ' Here Napoleon drew his hand across his eyes, which seemed filled with tears. He then went on : ... ' Good woman. . . . Excellent Josephine. . . . She loved me truly, — she — did she not ? ' . . . Ah, she was a French woman.
Page 164 - ... my spirit are all yours ; that my soul is in your body ; and that the day on which you change or cease to live will be my death-day ; that Nature, that Earth, is beautiful only because you dwell therein.
Page 147 - EGLÉ, belle et poète, a deux petits travers: Elle fait son visage, et ne fait pas ses vers.
Page 163 - ... country, all the world is annihilated for him except herself. " I care for honor because you do, for victory because it gratifies you, otherwise I would have left all else to throw myself at your feet. Dear friend, be sure and say you are persuaded that I love you above all that can be imagined — persuaded that every moment of my time is consecrated to you ; that never an hour passes without thought of you; that it never occurred to me to think of another woman ; that they are all in my eyes...
Page 449 - For my part, I know very well that I have no true friends. As long as I continue what I am, I may have as many pretended friends as I please. Leave sensibility to women; it is their business. But men should be firm in heart and in purpose, or they should have nothing to do with war or government.
Page 447 - ... Council, he divided it into sections, to each of which he referred the various projects proposed to him 'by his ministers to be separately considered. The same matters were afterwards discussed by the assembled Council, and generally in his presence. The moment a new province was added to the empire, he sought out the cleverest men with whom to enrich his Council. For example, Genoa supplied him with Corvetto, who became afterwards one of the ministers of Louis XVIII. Corsini came from Florence,...
Page 262 - ... pervaded her whole person rendered her still more attractive. His Majesty fancied he saw in her a woman who had been sacrificed, whose family life was unhappy, and the interest inspired by this idea made him more enamoured, more impassioned, than he had ever been for any woman. She must have perceived it. The day after the ball, the Emperor seemed to me in an unusual state of agitation. He would rise, walk about, sit down, and rise again. I thought I should never finish dressing him that day....