. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . fort made in high quarters to suppressand divert it. To the bulk of the people, Napoleonsdivorce and subsequent marriage had been extremely dis-tasteful ; and this, not only because Josephine was uni-versally beloved, but that a superstitious belief liad arisen— shared in some degree by her husband himself—thather presence was the good genius of his fortimes. Alreadythere was a vague but poj^ular predict
. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . fort made in high quarters to suppressand divert it. To the bulk of the people, Napoleonsdivorce and subsequent marriage had been extremely dis-tasteful ; and this, not only because Josephine was uni-versally beloved, but that a superstitious belief liad arisen— shared in some degree by her husband himself—thather presence was the good genius of his fortimes. Alreadythere was a vague but poj^ular prediction extant, that thedowry of an Austrian archduchess would bring bitter mis-fortunes to France and its chief; and now the memory ofthe terrible disaster attendant on the nuptials of MarieAntomette, aunt to the Empress, with the Daujjhin, wasrevived, and the present calamity considered a fresh proofthat fate had a fearful warning in store for every aUiauceof France with the House of Hapsburg. When, within afew years, the divorcer of Josephine was discrowned andforsaken, many prophets, wise after the event, beheld inthis fatal festival an omen of the downfall of the THE EMPEROR CHARLEMAGNE. A LONG period intervenes in the annals of the Court ofFrance between the Coiut of France under Charlemagneand that of Louis Napoleon. We present the portraits andaspects of the two in contrast with the long past and thepresent of that gorgeous and splendid court. Look Ijackover the wide historic plains and mountains of more than athousand years, and behold the name and fonn and charac-ter of Charlemagne, the monarch emperor, towering up incolossal grandeur, high above all his compeers, like thepyramid of the Egyptian Cyclops. We have thought togive his face and form an artistic resurrection, to gratifyour readers, in looking iipon an ancient man and monarch,who w^elded mighty armies and swayed the sceptre ofkingdoms, and who created for himself a historic fame, aslasting
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