Marie Louise, the Island of Elba, and the Hundred DaysC. Scribner's Sons, 1891 - 283 pages |
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Page 148 - ... be impotent. Frenchmen ! my will is that of the people — my rights are theirs — my honour, my glory, my happiness, can never be separated from the honour, glory, and happiness of France.
Page 233 - I come, like Themistocles, to place myself at the hearth of the British people. I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim of Your Royal Highness as of the most powerful, the most constant, and the most generous of my enemies.
Page 64 - The Grand Duke despatched this letter to Vienna. Let us hear what M. de Me"neval has to tell us about the way it was received. " One day," he says, " on returning from her daily visit to the imperial palace, Marie Louise brought back a letter from the Emperor Napoleon which her father had given her. The Emperor complained of her silence, and begged her to write him accounts of herself and her son. The letter had been delivered by a courier of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the Austrian Emperor had...
Page 233 - Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British People. I place myself under the protection of their laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness, as the most...
Page 172 - Soldiers ! this day is the anniversary of Marengo and of Friedland, which twice decided the destiny of Europe. Then, as after Austerlitz, as after Wagram, we were too generous ! We believed in the protestations and in the oaths of princes, whom we left on their thrones. Now, however, leagued together, they aim at the independence and the most sacred rights of France.
Page 113 - Buonaparte has placed himself without the pale of civil and social relations, and that as an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity of the world, he has rendered himself liable to public vengeance.
Page 255 - I hereby solemnly protest in the face of heaven and mankind against the violence that is done me ; and the violation of my most sacred rights, in forcibly disposing of my person and liberty. I voluntarily came on board the Bellerophon — I am not the prisoner, I am the guest of England. I came at the instigation of the Captain himself, who said he had orders from the Government to receive and convey me to England, together with my suite, if agreeable to me. I came forward with confidence to place...