. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. , Eugene will notsuit me in Italy after his mother is divorced. Spain? Do you notsee it falling into the hollow of my hand, thanks to the blunders of mydear Bourbons, and to the follies of your friend, the Prince of Peace?Would you not be well pleased to reign there, where you have beenonly ambassador? Once for all, what do you want? Speak! Whateveryou wish, or can wish, is yours, if your divorce precedes mine. Until midnight the two brothers wrestled with the ques-tion between them. Neither would abandon his position;and when Lucien finally went away, his face
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. , Eugene will notsuit me in Italy after his mother is divorced. Spain? Do you notsee it falling into the hollow of my hand, thanks to the blunders of mydear Bourbons, and to the follies of your friend, the Prince of Peace?Would you not be well pleased to reign there, where you have beenonly ambassador? Once for all, what do you want? Speak! Whateveryou wish, or can wish, is yours, if your divorce precedes mine. Until midnight the two brothers wrestled with the ques-tion between them. Neither would abandon his position;and when Lucien finally went away, his face was wet withtears. To Meneval, who conducted him to his inn in thetown, he said, in bidding him carry his farewell to the em-peror, It may be forever. It was not. Seven years laterthe brothers met again, but the map of Europe was foreverrolled up for Napoleon. The essential point in carrying out the Tilsit plan was,the fidelity of Alexander; and Napoleon resolved, beforegoing into the Spanish war, to meet the Emperor of ALEXANDER I. OF RUSSIA. 1805. DISASTER IN SPAIN 203 This was the more needful, because Austria had begun toshow signs of hostihty. The meeting took place in September, 1807, at Erfurt, inSaxony, and lasted a month. Napoleon acted as host, andprepared a splendid entertainment for his guests. The com-pany he had gathered was most brilliant. Beside the Rus-sian and French emperors, with ambassadors and suites,were the Kings of Saxony, Bavaria, and Wiirtemberg, thePrince Primate, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess ofBaden, the Dukes of Saxony, and the Princes of the Confed-eration of the Rhine. The palaces where the emperors were entertained, werefurnished with articles from the Garde-Mettble of leading actors of the Theatre Francais gave the bestFrench tragedies to a house where there was, as Napoleonhad promised Talma, a parterre full of kings. Therewas a hare hunt on the battle-field of Jena, to which evenPrince William of Prussia was invited,
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