. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. EMPRESS MARIE LOUISE was one of those unfortunate princesses whohave been tossed by the caprice offate to a brilliant, exalted position,without regard to their merits, andthen as indifferently dropped intoobscurity. She was the eldest daugh-ter of Francis I., Emperor of Aus-tria, and of his second wife, MariaTheresa of Naples, and was born in1791. Napoleon, Emperor of theFrench, had, in 1809, crushed thepower of Austria on the field ofWagram, and this triumph won for France the peace ofPresburg, which deprived
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages;. EMPRESS MARIE LOUISE was one of those unfortunate princesses whohave been tossed by the caprice offate to a brilliant, exalted position,without regard to their merits, andthen as indifferently dropped intoobscurity. She was the eldest daugh-ter of Francis I., Emperor of Aus-tria, and of his second wife, MariaTheresa of Naples, and was born in1791. Napoleon, Emperor of theFrench, had, in 1809, crushed thepower of Austria on the field ofWagram, and this triumph won for France the peace ofPresburg, which deprived Austria of a fourth of her domains,and for Napoleon, as his second wife, the hand of the youngand beautiful Archduchess, Marie Louise. The marriagetook place in 1810, when the French emperor was at thezenith of his power, but it proved not only the limit of goodfortune, but the commencement of his decline. The Empe-ror Alexander of Russia was personally hurt by the Austrianmarriage, for Napoleon had made terms for marriage with hissister, and he never forgave the insult. In 1811
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