Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . ort made in high quarters to suppressand divert it. To the bulk of the peojale, Napoleonsdivorce and subsequent marriage had been extremely dis-tasteful ; and this, not only because Josephine was imi-versally beloved, but that a superstitious behef had arisen— shared in some degree by her husband himself— thather presence was the good genius of his fortunes. Alreadythere was a vague but popular prediction extant, that thedowry of an Austrian archduchess would bring bitter mis-fortunes to France and its chief; and now
Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . ort made in high quarters to suppressand divert it. To the bulk of the peojale, Napoleonsdivorce and subsequent marriage had been extremely dis-tasteful ; and this, not only because Josephine was imi-versally beloved, but that a superstitious behef had arisen— shared in some degree by her husband himself— thather presence was the good genius of his fortunes. Alreadythere was a vague but popular prediction extant, that thedowry of an Austrian archduchess would bring bitter mis-fortunes to France and its chief; and now the memory ofthe terrible disaster attendant on the nuptials of MarieAntoinette, aunt to the Empress, with the Dauphin, wasrevived, and the present calamity considered a fresh proofthat fate had a fearful warning in store for every allianceof France with the House of Haj^sburg. When, within afew years, the divorcer of Josephine was discrowned andforsaken, many prophets, wise aftei the event, beheld inthis fatal festival an omen of the downfall of the jlislil: THE EMPEROR CHARLEMAGNE. A LONG period intervenes in the annals of the Court ofFrance between the Court of France under Charlemagneand that of Louis Napoleon. We present the portraits andaspects of the two in contrast with the long past and thepresent of that gorgeous and splendid court. Look backover the wide historic plains and mountains of more than athousand years, and Ijehold the name and form and charac-ter of Charlemagne, the monarch emperor, towering up incolossal grandeur, high aljove all his compeers, like thepyramid of the Egyptian Cyclops. We have thought togive his lace and form an artistic resurrection, to gratifyour readers, in looking upon an ancient man and monarch,who wielded mighty armies and swayed the sceptre ofkingdoms, and who created for himself a historic fame, aslasting as the annals of time. In addition to this, there isa mde personal and family interest in the historic ren
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