. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . arecertainly as near perfection as a floral representation oncanvas can possibly be. There will, about a groiip of this kind, always be a cer-tain stiffness — an appearance of sitting for a portrait —which it is almost impossible to avoid. In the present pic-ture this stifliiess of position is not as obvious as in mostpaintings of the kind, but still it is there to a smalldegree. Exception might also be
. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . arecertainly as near perfection as a floral representation oncanvas can possibly be. There will, about a groiip of this kind, always be a cer-tain stiffness — an appearance of sitting for a portrait —which it is almost impossible to avoid. In the present pic-ture this stifliiess of position is not as obvious as in mostpaintings of the kind, but still it is there to a smalldegree. Exception might also be taken to the unpleasant,dark sky, seen occasionally behind the foliage. This brief description of the history and design of the THE COURT OF FRANCE. original painting leaves it a subject for study, and its per-sonages objects for artistic admiration, from the positionthey occupy in the most brilliant court of the present. ?i! !^. iP © [L E CO) Fa p 0 fl 0 THE EMPEHOR LOUIS NAPOLEON UI. Perhaps iu the whole history of human vicissitude thereis no career more extraordinary than that of Louis Napo-leon. La 1847 Louis Philippe was in the zenith of hispower, and Louis Napoleon a poor refugee in Loudon,known only to the public hy his expeditions to Strasbingand Boulogne, which seemed the enterprises of a could have prophesied that before another year closedthese two would have exchanged places, — Louis Phihppethe exUe, Louis Napoleon the constitutional head of France,soon to be its Emperor, with a power as despotic as thatof Napoleon I. ? The monarchy of Louis Philippe was rottenat the core, while there can be no doubt now that iu 18-47the masses in France were in favor of the heir of Philippe was old, and had lost much of his formerenergy; whereas, Louis Napoleon, in the prime of life, hadgiven proofs not only of the most fearless courage, but,what was less known, of great menta
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