Napoleon's court and cabinet of StCloud : in a series of letters . y of the faithful believe that thisPontiff would have preferred obscurity to disgrace. While Joseph Fesch was a master of a tavern hemarried the daughter of a tinker, by whom he had threechildren. This marriage, according to the republican regu-lations, had only been celebrated by the municipality atAjaccio ; Fesch, therefore, upon again entering the bosomof the Church, left his municipal wife and children to shiftfor themselves, considering himself still, according to thecanonical laws, a bachelor. But Madame Fesch, hearing, i
Napoleon's court and cabinet of StCloud : in a series of letters . y of the faithful believe that thisPontiff would have preferred obscurity to disgrace. While Joseph Fesch was a master of a tavern hemarried the daughter of a tinker, by whom he had threechildren. This marriage, according to the republican regu-lations, had only been celebrated by the municipality atAjaccio ; Fesch, therefore, upon again entering the bosomof the Church, left his municipal wife and children to shiftfor themselves, considering himself still, according to thecanonical laws, a bachelor. But Madame Fesch, hearing, in1801, of her ci-devant husbands promotion to the Arch-bishopric of Lyons, wrote to him for some succours, beingwith her children reduced to great misery. Madame LetitiaBonaparte answered her letter, enclosing a draft for sixhundred livres—£2$—informing her that the same sumwould be paid her every six months, as long as she con-tinued with her children to reside at Corsica, but that itwould cease the instant she left that island. Either thinking <j**r*fl.
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