. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. poleons. That he had never ex-plained to her what he meant, was due to his own 1807, he had succumbed entirely, when the subject cameup, and put the thought aside. Now he clung to his de-cision, but lacked courage to break it to her. He feignedirritation and coldness to hide his own faint-heartedness. As a matter of fact, Napoleon regarded the divorce as agreat state affair. To perpetuate Frances peace, stability,glory, an heir was necessary; therefore he and Josephinewho loved each other parted. They suffered that Francemight live. The divorce the
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. poleons. That he had never ex-plained to her what he meant, was due to his own 1807, he had succumbed entirely, when the subject cameup, and put the thought aside. Now he clung to his de-cision, but lacked courage to break it to her. He feignedirritation and coldness to hide his own faint-heartedness. As a matter of fact, Napoleon regarded the divorce as agreat state affair. To perpetuate Frances peace, stability,glory, an heir was necessary; therefore he and Josephinewho loved each other parted. They suffered that Francemight live. The divorce then, was to be regarded as a sac-rificial rite, and Josephine was to be placed before the coun-try as a noble victim to whom the greatest honor then andever should be shown. Such was Napoleons idea, andcjuietly, in this month after his return from Schonbrunn, hewas preparing a ceremony which would put the affair in thislight to the country. It was for this reason he summonedall the members of the Bonaparte and Beauharnais families.
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