The women Bonapartes: the mother and three sisters of Napoléon I . he Emperors was only permitted to escort her so faras the first post-house, but the fascinating Cenamiwas, of course, included in her suite, which wasa very imposing one, and required seven travel-ling-carriages to transport it, to say nothing of aconsiderable baggage-train. On the 17th, shearrived in Paris and established herself at thePetit-Luxembourg, where Laplace, the Chancel-lor of the Senate, had offered her hospitality,from which however she subsequently removedto the Hotel Marbeuf. She did not accomp
The women Bonapartes: the mother and three sisters of Napoléon I . he Emperors was only permitted to escort her so faras the first post-house, but the fascinating Cenamiwas, of course, included in her suite, which wasa very imposing one, and required seven travel-ling-carriages to transport it, to say nothing of aconsiderable baggage-train. On the 17th, shearrived in Paris and established herself at thePetit-Luxembourg, where Laplace, the Chancel-lor of the Senate, had offered her hospitality,from which however she subsequently removedto the Hotel Marbeuf. She did not accompanythe Emperor to meet his bride at Compiegne, butshe was at Saint-Cloud when the new Empressarrived there on the 30th, and assisted at all theceremonies which followed. Marie Louise doesnot seem to have been very favourably impressedby her eldest sister-in-law, whose authoritativeair and masculine appearance jarred upon her,but she was delighted with the little PrincesseNapol^one, whom she overwhelmed with caresses. ^ M. Fr^d^ric Masson, Napoleon et sa ELISA BONAPARTK. GRAND DUCHKSSOF TUSCANY, PRINCESS OF LUCCAAND PIOMBINO AFTER A MINIATURE DRAWN IX iSlO THE WOMEN BONAPARTES 173 The Grand-Duchess of Tuscany, she wrote tothe Emperor of Austria, is very is ugly, but she has a daughter three yearsold, who is the most beautiful child I have everseen. On July 3, at the Hotel Marbeuf, Elisa gavebirth to a son, who received the names of JeromeCharles, in honour of the King of Westphalia,who acted as godfather. Next to Lucien, ofwhom, however, she had seen but little of recentyears, Elisa seems to have preferred Jerome toany of her family, and, although she was farfrom being of a generous disposition, she hadrecently lent 50,000 francs to that incorrigiblespendthrift, who was perpetually in want ofmoney. The birth of Jerome Charles was announcedto the Florentines by the discharge of one hun-dred and one guns, and the child was declared, inconformity with the
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