. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. e. Napoleon didnot show so bold a front as did his victim. There is no doubt but that Napoleon suffered deeply overthe separation. If his love had lost its illusion, he wasgenuinely attached to Josephine, and in a way she was neces-sary to his happiness. After the ceremony of separation,he was to go to Saint Cloud, she to Malmaison. Whilewaiting for his carriage, he returned to his study in thepalace. For a long time he sat silent and depressed, hishead on his hand. When he was summoned he rose, hisface distorted with pain, and went into the empresss apart-ment
. A life of Napoleon Boneparte:. e. Napoleon didnot show so bold a front as did his victim. There is no doubt but that Napoleon suffered deeply overthe separation. If his love had lost its illusion, he wasgenuinely attached to Josephine, and in a way she was neces-sary to his happiness. After the ceremony of separation,he was to go to Saint Cloud, she to Malmaison. Whilewaiting for his carriage, he returned to his study in thepalace. For a long time he sat silent and depressed, hishead on his hand. When he was summoned he rose, hisface distorted with pain, and went into the empresss apart-ment. Josephine was alone. When she saw the emperor, she threw herself on his neck,sobbing aloud. He pressed her to his bosom, kissed heragain and again, until overpowered with emotion, shefainted. Leaving her to her women, he hurried to his car-riage. Meneval, who saw this sad parting, remained withJosephine until she became conscious. When he left, shebegged him not to let the emperor forget her, and to see thathe wrote her NAPOLEON. Engraved in 1841 by Louis, after a painting made in 1837 by Delaroche, nowin the Standish collection, and called the Snuff-box. Probably the finestengraving ever made of a Napoleon portrait. 224 THE DIVORCE—A NEW WIFE 225 I left her, that naive admirer and apologist of Na-poleon goes on, grieved at so deep a sorrow and so sincerean affection. I felt very miserable all along my route, andI could not help deploring that the rigorous exactions ofpolitics should violently break the bonds of an affectionwhich had stood the test of time, to impose another unionfull of uncertainty. Josephine returned to Malmaison to live, but Napoleontook care that she should have, in addition, another home,giving her Navarre, a chateau near Evreux, some fiftymiles from Paris. She had an income of some four hundredthousand dollars a year, and the emperor showed rarethoughtfulness in providing her with everything she couldwant. She was to deny herself nothing, take
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