. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. ned his country palace, Napoleon-shoe, until it took high rank among the show places of a strange retribution Napoleonshoe became the prison ofNapoleon III, after his capture by the Germans at Sedan, in1870, and it was there that the last of the Bonapartes tookleave of royal palaces forever. By a trick of nature Napoleon found his only real brothersamong his sisters. Although, even as the effeminate emperorsof degenerate Rome assumed the name of Csesar, the crownedbrothers all styled themselves Napoleons—Joseph Napoleon,
. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. ned his country palace, Napoleon-shoe, until it took high rank among the show places of a strange retribution Napoleonshoe became the prison ofNapoleon III, after his capture by the Germans at Sedan, in1870, and it was there that the last of the Bonapartes tookleave of royal palaces forever. By a trick of nature Napoleon found his only real brothersamong his sisters. Although, even as the effeminate emperorsof degenerate Rome assumed the name of Csesar, the crownedbrothers all styled themselves Napoleons—Joseph Napoleon,Louis Napoleon, Jerome Napoleon—Caroline and Blisa werebetter counterfeits of the Emperor than any of the male Bona-partes. Those two sisters were ambitious and masterful spirits,while in point of personal appearance they held their own in aremarkably handsome family. The elder, Caroline, wife ofMurat, had fair hair and a dazzling complexion, with roses inher cheeks. She bore the head of Cromwell, on the shouldersof a pretty woman, Talleyrand said of Peikces of the New Imperial Family and the Father of Napoleon1, Eugene Beauharnais, 2, Jerome Bonaparte, 3, the Father ofNapoleon^ 4, Joseph Bonaparte, 5, Louis, 6, Lucien THE KINGMAKER 215 As the one sister who had a husband that was useful to theEmpire, she made hard terms with her brother on every occa-sion. To appease the demands of the Murats, the Emperorwas forced to a painful bit of surgery when he carved out aprincipality for them in Germany and created them the Princeand Princess of Berg and the Duke and Duchess of , Murat was made heir to the throne of Naples,Josephs children being girls. Elisa, the other Napoleon in petticoats, was the black hairedsister and less beautiful, although not at all uncomely. Elisahad a Corsican husband, Felix Bacciocchi, who was a hin-drance rather than an aid to her passion for place and being a clever pupil of Maehiavelli, she overcame thehandicap of a stup
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