. The public and private history of Napoleon the third, Emperor of the French : with biographical notices of his most distinguished ministers, generals, relatives, and favorites, and various details descriptive of France under the Second Empire . Thisamiable and unambitious man died at Florence, in January,1846. I No. XVI. Memoir of Hmi,ense Beauliarnois, Ex-queen of Holland.^ HoRTENSE Fanny de Beauharnois, the mother of Napo-leon III., was born at Paris on the 10th of April, 1783, at aperiod when the French nobility was still resplendent with thatprosperity which was the reward of service don
. The public and private history of Napoleon the third, Emperor of the French : with biographical notices of his most distinguished ministers, generals, relatives, and favorites, and various details descriptive of France under the Second Empire . Thisamiable and unambitious man died at Florence, in January,1846. I No. XVI. Memoir of Hmi,ense Beauliarnois, Ex-queen of Holland.^ HoRTENSE Fanny de Beauharnois, the mother of Napo-leon III., was born at Paris on the 10th of April, 1783, at aperiod when the French nobility was still resplendent with thatprosperity which was the reward of service done to the State,in arms or magistracy. Paris had not yet learned to gazeenviously upon this elevated class, then as pre-eminent by theelegance of its manners, as by the enjoyment of privileges towhich it attached little importance. Every young girl offamily could then, not perhaps aspire openly to the throne,but at least flatter herself with the belief of rising to it withoutdifficulty. Madame de Maintenon had shown that royal bloodwas not essential to the easy exercise of royal power. The history of childhood is rather the story of the familythan of the infant. Hortense gave promise of wit, grace and From the French of Count de la L m:. BY J ami HMmiH. m m [Pil T E R1 % -E OE NAPOLEON III. 291 amiability, but the fond anticipations of maternal partialitywere not realized until after a series of distressing calamities,of which some account may not be inappropriate. Her father, the Vicomte de Beauharnois, was a youngerson of a noble and wealthy family of Martinique. He enteredthe army at an early age, and obtained distinction in severalaffairs as a major in the forces under Rochambeau, then fight-ing for the cause of American freedom. Upon his return toFrance, without disgracing the creed of liberty by any un-worthy action, he adhered to the principles he had defended,which perhaps had been prematurely developed by hisAmerican associations. He espoused with enthusiasm the
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