. The romance of Monaco and its rulers . t of GrandEquerry to Josephine. He accepted it, served herdevotedly, and after the Divorce, on being offeredthe same function with Marie-Louise, refused it, andcontinued in Josephines Household until 1814. During the twenty years that Monaco was in-corporated with France, her history was the banaltale of any small town. The English attacked herin 1800 (for her arsenal made her a valuable prize),but the French troops at La Turbia came so quicklyto the rescue that the English ones fled—setting fire asthey went to the long train of gunpowder which hadbeen
. The romance of Monaco and its rulers . t of GrandEquerry to Josephine. He accepted it, served herdevotedly, and after the Divorce, on being offeredthe same function with Marie-Louise, refused it, andcontinued in Josephines Household until 1814. During the twenty years that Monaco was in-corporated with France, her history was the banaltale of any small town. The English attacked herin 1800 (for her arsenal made her a valuable prize),but the French troops at La Turbia came so quicklyto the rescue that the English ones fled—setting fire asthey went to the long train of gunpowder which hadbeen spilt in the hasty shipment of such ammunitionas they had succeeded in seizing. There was anawful explosion, in which many women and childrenwere killed. This was the one notable event in Joseph was to the Earl of Moira in his attack on Francein 1795. He had been one of the first emigrants. He marriedagain, after his Princesss heroic death, the widow of MajorWelbore Ellis, of the 53rd Foot {Gentlemans Magazine, Decem-ber 1832).. From a liihogiaph by Delpech. LOUIS-JOSEPH DE BOURBON,p. ago] Prince de Conde. 2^2 The Romance of Monaco and its Rulers for the future the Grimaldi sovereign-rights, andre-established the French Protectorate : Europe, andnot * ks deux maisons souveraines.* Thus M6tivier,with something too much of official suavity, bracketstogether Royal Bourbons and Princeling Grimaldis !The question of the Protectorate should have beenleft (he argues) to the two sovereigns ; Europesinterference supplied an evil precedent, which, lateron, the Kings of Sardinia used to the full. Honore IV was too ill to reign ; he delegated hisbrother Joseph. This Prince was cordially came, to find a Principality much exhausted bythe continual passage of Napoleons troops, and stillmore by the incessant conscription—but much em-bellished, also, by many marks of the great mansgenius, such as the Quay at Mentone, the Bridge, and, above all, the renowned Cor-nich
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