Anecdotes of Napoleon Bonaparte and His TimesJ.B. Perry, 1855 - 504 pages |
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... night in a cell , the whole furniture of which consisted of a girth bed , an iron water - pitcher , and basin ; yet gloomy as this seclusion was , young Napo- leon preferred retiring to it during the intervals of scho- lastic exercise ...
... night in a cell , the whole furniture of which consisted of a girth bed , an iron water - pitcher , and basin ; yet gloomy as this seclusion was , young Napo- leon preferred retiring to it during the intervals of scho- lastic exercise ...
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... night preceding the 21st of January , I had not closed my eyes ; yet I was unable to account to myself for the cause of my unusual agitation . I rose early , and eagerly ran wherever the crowd was assembling . I wondered at , or rather ...
... night preceding the 21st of January , I had not closed my eyes ; yet I was unable to account to myself for the cause of my unusual agitation . I rose early , and eagerly ran wherever the crowd was assembling . I wondered at , or rather ...
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... night , and the decisive assault on the Tuileries was ex ected to take place next morning . Bonaparte stated that the failure of the march of Menou had been chiefly ow ' g to the presence of the " Representatives of the peo le , " and ...
... night , and the decisive assault on the Tuileries was ex ected to take place next morning . Bonaparte stated that the failure of the march of Menou had been chiefly ow ' g to the presence of the " Representatives of the peo le , " and ...
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... night , Denon reached the palace , it was silent and gloomy ; an armed guard straggled through its haif lighted and spacious apartments . The ante - room of the council chamber was occupied by republican officers , fierce and dark as ...
... night , Denon reached the palace , it was silent and gloomy ; an armed guard straggled through its haif lighted and spacious apartments . The ante - room of the council chamber was occupied by republican officers , fierce and dark as ...
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... night ; I fell asleep , after repeating these words to my friends : You see that I have not been guillotined ; I shall yet be queen of France . " When I became empress , I felt anxious to keep my word , and requested that Madame de ...
... night ; I fell asleep , after repeating these words to my friends : You see that I have not been guillotined ; I shall yet be queen of France . " When I became empress , I felt anxious to keep my word , and requested that Madame de ...
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Page vi - Corsica waving his imperial flag over her most ancient capitals. All the visions of antiquity became common places in his contemplation; kings were his people — nations were his outposts; and he disposed of courts, and crowns, and camps, and churches, and cabinets, as if they were the titular dignitaries of the chessboard!
Page iv - Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy...
Page iv - Revolution that quickened every energy of a people who acknowledged no superior, he commenced his course a stranger by birth and a scholar by charity ! With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank, and wealth, and genius had arrayed themselves, and competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive...
Page vi - Skepticism bowed to the prodigies of his performance; romance assumed the air of history; nor was there aught too incredible for belief, or too fanciful for expectation, when the world saw a subaltern of Corsica waving his imperial flag over her most ancient capitals.
Page iv - ... that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary character — the most extraordinary, perhaps, that, in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell.
Page 446 - A short time afterwards, referring to the same subject, he exclaimed, " In that extraordinary campaign, thrice, in less than a week's space, I saw the certain triumph of France and the determination of her fate slip through my fingers. Had it not been for the desertion of a traitor, I should have annihilated the enemy at the outset of the campaign.
Page vi - His person partook the character of his mind — if the one never yielded in the cabinet, the other never bent in the field. Nature had no obstacles that he did not surmount ; space no opposition that he did not spurn : and whether amid Alpine rocks, Arabian sands, or polar snows, he seemed proof against peril, and empowered with ubiquity!
Page 416 - ... in our affairs. Who would pretend to be master over us ? Who would have the power ? Resume those eagles which you had at Ulm, at Austerlitz, at Jena, at Eylau, at Wagram, at Friedland, at Tudela, at Eckmuhl, at Essling, at Smolensk, at the Moskwa, at Lutzen, at Wurtchen, at Montmirail.
Page 36 - On seeing the sword, he burst into tears. I felt so much affected by his conduct, that I noticed and praised him much. A few days afterwards his mother came to return me a visit of thanks. I was much struck with her appearance, and still more with her ftfrit. The first impression was daily strengthened, and marriage was not long in following.
Page 478 - ... together so that I might pass over. They answered that it was possible, but hazardous. I desired them to set about it instantly. In the course of a few hours they succeeded in effecting what the others had pronounced to be impossible, and I crossed before the evening was over. I ordered those who had worked at it to receive a sum of money each, a suit of clothes, and their liberty. Marchand was with me at the time.