Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . en mounted the presidents seat, and summoned the rep-resentatives to retire. The General, said he, has givenorders. Some of the deputies and spectators began now to leavethe hall; the greater part continued firm, and sustainedthe shouts by which they rejnobated this mihtary intru-sion. The drums at length struck ujJ, and drowned furtherremonstrance. Forward, grenadiers, said the officer who commandedthe party. They levelled their muskets, and advanced asif to the charge. The deputies seem hitherto to haveretained a li
Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria . en mounted the presidents seat, and summoned the rep-resentatives to retire. The General, said he, has givenorders. Some of the deputies and spectators began now to leavethe hall; the greater part continued firm, and sustainedthe shouts by which they rejnobated this mihtary intru-sion. The drums at length struck ujJ, and drowned furtherremonstrance. Forward, grenadiers, said the officer who commandedthe party. They levelled their muskets, and advanced asif to the charge. The deputies seem hitherto to haveretained a lingering hope that their persons would be re-garded as inviolable. They now fled on all sides, most ofthem jmnping from the windows of the Orangerie, and NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. 37 leaving behind tlioni their official caps, scarfs, and a veiy few minutes the apartments were entirely clear;and thus, furnishing at its conclusion a striking parallel tothe scene which ended the Long Parliament of Cliarles theFirsts time, terminated the last Democratical Assembly THE DIVORCE OF JOSEPHINE. It Avas Fouclio who first ventured to touch the fatalstring of the huperial divorce. One Sunday, at Fontaine-bleau, he drew Josephme aside into a recess of a window,and, after dweUing on the necessities of the empire, gavethe hint of a separation; which he represented as tlie mostsublime of sacrifices. Josephine instantly ordered him outof her presence, and went to demand of Napoleon whetherthe minister had any authority for this proceedmg. TheEm[)eror answered in the negative; but when Josephuiewent on to demand the dismissal of Fouche, he refused tocomply. From that hour she must have been convincedthat her doom was fixed. Napoleon cherished a strong attachment to his littlegrandchild, the son of Hortense and of his brother boy was extremely l)eautiful, and developed all thosenoble and spirited traits of character which peculiarly de-lighted the Emperor. Napoleon had appa
Size: 1279px × 1954px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, bookpublishernewyorkcscribner
