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Title: Queen Hortense
A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era

Author: L. Muehlbach

Release Date: April 14, 2004 [EBook #12019]

Language: English

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QUEEN HORTENSE

A Life picture of the Napoleonic Era

BY

L. MUeHLBACH

AUTHOR OF PRINCE EUGENE AND HIS TIMES, JOSEPH II, AND HIS COURT,
MERCHANT OF BERLIN, ETC.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY

CHAPMAN COLEMAN

1910

CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

_DAYS OF CHILDHOOD AND OF THE REVOLUTION._

CHAPTER

I.--Days of Childhood.
II.--The Prophecy.
III.--Consequences of the Revolution.
IV.--General Bonaparte.
V.--The Marriage.
VI.--Bonaparte in Italy.
VII.--Vicissitudes of Destiny.
VIII.--Bonaparte's Return from Egypt.

BOOK II.

_THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND._

CHAPTER

I.--A First Love.
II.--Louis Bonaparte and Duroc.
III--Consul and King.
IV.--The Calumny.
V.--King or Emperor.
VI.--Napoleon's Heir.
VII.--Premonitions.
VIII.--The Divorce.
IX.--The King of Holland.
X.--Junot, the Duke d'Abrantes.
XI.--Louis Napoleon as a Vender of Violets.
XII.--The Days of Misfortune.
XIII.--The Allies in Paris.
XIV.--Correspondence between the Queen and Louise de Cochelet.
XV.--Queen Hortense and the Emperor Alexander.
XVI.--The New Uncles.
XVII.--Death of the Empress Josephine.

BOOK III.

_THE RESTORATION._

CHAPTER

I.--The Return of the Bourbons.
II.--The Bourbons and the Bonapartes.
III.--Madame de Stael.
IV.--Madame de Stael's Return to Paris.
V.--Madame de Stael's Visit to Queen Hortense.
VI.--The Old and New Era.
VII.--King Louis XVIII.
VIII.--The Drawing-room of the Duchess of St. Leu.
IX.--The Burial of Louis XVI. and his Wife.
X.--Napoleon's Return from Elba.
XI.--Louis XVIII.'s Departure and Napoleon's Arrival.
XII.--The Hundred Days.
XIII.--Napoleon's Last Adieu.

BOOK IV.

_THE DUCHESS OF ST. LEU._

CHAPTER

I.--The Banishment of the Duchess