. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . mterview. Josephinethen, in the experience of an intensity of anguish whichfew hearts have ever known, parted forever from the hus-band whom she had so long, so fondly, and so faithfullyloved. After the Empress had retired, with a desolated heart,to her chamber of unnatural widowhood, the attendant en-tered the apartment of Napoleon to remove the found the Emperor so buried beneath the bedcloth
. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . mterview. Josephinethen, in the experience of an intensity of anguish whichfew hearts have ever known, parted forever from the hus-band whom she had so long, so fondly, and so faithfullyloved. After the Empress had retired, with a desolated heart,to her chamber of unnatural widowhood, the attendant en-tered the apartment of Napoleon to remove the found the Emperor so buried beneath the bedclothesas to be invisible. Not a word was uttered. The lightswere removed, and the unhappy monarch was left in dark-ness and silence to the dreadful companionship of his OAvnthoughts. The next morning the death-like pallor of hischeek, his sunken eye, and the haggard expression of hiscountenance, attested that the Emperor had passed thenight in sleeplessness and suffering. Great as was the wrong which Napoleon thus inflictedupon the noble Josephine, every one must be sensible of acertain kind of grandeur which pervades this renownedtragedy in the life and history of the Emperor Napoleon PRINCE AND PRINCESS NAPOLEON. Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, second andonly surviving son of Jerome Bonajxirte by Ids secondwife, the Princess Frederique of Wiirtemberg, was bornSeptember 9, 1822. He was educated chiefly in Austriaand Italy, but he subsequently travelled in Switzerland,America, and Brussels, in each of which places he residedsome time. His first appearance on the political stagewas after the recall of the Bonaparte family to Paris,under the presidency of Prince Louis Napoleon. Beingelected a member of the Legislative Assembly, the PrinceNapoleon distinguished himself by his energetic supportof ultra oi^inions, and soon became the recognized leaderof the party of the Mountain. Since the accession ofNapoleon HI. to the Imperial crown, Prince Napoleonhas abandoned extreme p
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