. St. Nicholas [serial] . nd thePope has no bearing on our story. Suffice itto say that when Napoleon assumed the sover-eignty of Italy he took away from the Popewhat is known as his temporal power — theright to rule the States of the Church as alanded prince. And when that spirited oldPontiff objected to Napoleons ways, the Em-peror stole him bodily—first from Rome, andthen from Savona, until finally he shut thePope up in this palace of Fontainebleau untilsuch time as the Holy Father would yieldto the imperial will. This the Pope refusedto do; and, living the life of a recluse in thatgreat gi
. St. Nicholas [serial] . nd thePope has no bearing on our story. Suffice itto say that when Napoleon assumed the sover-eignty of Italy he took away from the Popewhat is known as his temporal power — theright to rule the States of the Church as alanded prince. And when that spirited oldPontiff objected to Napoleons ways, the Em-peror stole him bodily—first from Rome, andthen from Savona, until finally he shut thePope up in this palace of Fontainebleau untilsuch time as the Holy Father would yieldto the imperial will. This the Pope refusedto do; and, living the life of a recluse in thatgreat gilded palace, he had come to be knownto men as the Prisoner of Fontainebleau. Through the crisp winters morning Philip i895-: A BOY OF THE FIRST EMPIRE. 689 rode on to Fontainebleau. Into the wide foresthe galloped, on under its great leafless trees,on past the meadows, lawns, and cliffs thatmake the forest of Fontainebleau one of theworlds picture-spots, on past the Cross of theSpecter Huntsmen, the Gorge of the Wolf,. the Pool of the Elves, the MiraculousWeeping Rock, and the RobbersCave, up the Grand Promenade ofthe Queen, and so through the greatgardens into the splendid Court ofthe White Horse. Here he threwhis reins to the groom, and sought inthe palace Monsieur the Captain La-grosse of the Imperial Guard, who,while really the jailer, posed as thechamberlain of the Prisoner of delivered his message. At once therewas the bustle of preparation. Not for a yearand more had the Emperor or his court beenseen at the great XXII.—87. Philip, left to his own devices, wanderedthrough the splendid building, prying into themagnificent rooms, in which kings and queenshad held high festival in days gone by, andwondering, boy-like, as he peeped and pried,in just what rooms the captive Pope of Romelived in priestly state. Along a wide hall that looked out upon theCourt of the Fountain, Philip strolled and loi-tered, trying door after door in his curio
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