. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. Allhis suite were required to array themselves as if for attend-ance upon him at the Tuileries. Even his physician in hislast illness had to put on court dress before entering thechamber of death. Every head must be uncovered beforehim, and all his courtiers were commanded to remain stand-ing in his presence, hour after hour, Gourgaud having tolean against the door to keep from falling, and Bertrand andMontholon nearly fainting under the strain. The imprisoned Emperor was no less exacting in the taskshe set his followers than when
. In the footsteps of Napoleon, his life and its famous scenes. Allhis suite were required to array themselves as if for attend-ance upon him at the Tuileries. Even his physician in hislast illness had to put on court dress before entering thechamber of death. Every head must be uncovered beforehim, and all his courtiers were commanded to remain stand-ing in his presence, hour after hour, Gourgaud having tolean against the door to keep from falling, and Bertrand andMontholon nearly fainting under the strain. The imprisoned Emperor was no less exacting in the taskshe set his followers than when he could reward his servitorswith great titles and rich estates. His pent-up energies burstforth in a torrent of letters and memoirs. For fourteenhours, Montholon wrote and wrote at his dictation untilutterly exhausted, and Las Cases read and wrote for himuntil his overtaxed eyes failed. He took long English lessons from the Count, but while helearned how to read the extremely unpleasant things theLondon papers were saying about him, he did not acquire the. LONGWOOD
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