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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 edition. Excerpt: ...I go and implore their generosity? The melancholy state to which Bonaparte was reduced, wholly engrossed my feelings and my thoughts. I was resolved to share his death, or to folloio him into exile I was painfully surprised to re Noble-hearted woman! what a contrast does this feeling present to ttat which actuated his second wife, who abandoned him as readily, and with as little compunction or concern, as if her child had been the son of a ceive from the minister, Talleyrand, a despatch, inviting me to return to Malmaison to do the honours there, (81) the Emperor Alexander, and the King of Prussia, having expressed a wish, as I was told, to see the Queen of that palace of enchantments. I had some difficulty in mustering firmness enough to comply, thinking I might perhaps have to receive the same princes who had overthrown my husband, and broken for ever the sceptre of his authority. I made a painful effort upon myself, and the day I was honoured with the visit from those sovereigns, I managed to conceal my feelings surprisingly. But it could not but be manifest, that my heart was sorely afflicted, when I thought of my present situation, and compared it with that of the great man, to whom my lot was once united. How painful were my retrospections! I thanked those magnanimous princes, for having had the generosity to honour with their presence the forsaken wife of Bonaparte; I testified my gratitude for the love they manifested for the French people.(82) I recommended to their kind consideration that brave army, which had long displayed such prodigies of valour; I pleaded the cause of those brave soldiers, who still formed a bulwark around the hero of Austerlitz; and I claimed, earnestly claimed the liberty of the man whom I still loved. I forgot..

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