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 of St. Leu. II.--Louis Napoleon as a Child. III.--The Revolution of 1830. IV.--The Revolution in Rome and the Sons of Hortense. V.--The Death of Prince Napoleon. VI.--The Flight from Italy. VII.--The Pilgrimage. VIII.--Louis Philippe and the Duchess of St. Leu. IX.--The Departure of the Duchess from Paris. X.--Pilgrimage through France. XI.--Fragment from the Memoirs of Queen Hortense. XII.--The Pilgrim. XIII.--Conclusion.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
General Bonaparte suppressing the Revolt of the Sections, _Frontispiece_.
View of the Tuileries.
Portrait of Queen Hortense.
Portrait of Madame de Stael.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Queen Hortense by L. Mühlbach
- 2: When could Hortense Beauharnais
- 3: The heart of the dethroned queen bled from a thousand wounds
- 4: Married the beautiful Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie
- 5: Even away in Martinique this social earthquake was felt
- 6: Josephine forgot all her earlier griefs
- 7: The viscount was now powerless to fly
- 8: Sombre figure of the Grand Cophta
- 9: General Beauharnais still lives
- 10: Who had been dethroned by the guillotine
- 11: Madame Tallien chose the attire of the Roman patrician lady
- 12: Viscountess Beauharnais was soon
- 13: Nature had given Hortense beauty with a lavish hand
- 14: While Josephine de Beauharnais
- 15: And the famous 13th Vendemiaire
- 16: Bringing with him the sword of General Beauharnais
- 17: To the charming Duchess de Chevreuse
- 18: Bonaparte accompanied the viscountess on a visit to Ragideau
- 19: He wrote about this time to Bourrienne
- 20: Exclaimed Bonaparte one day to Bourrienne
- 21: The palace occupied by the Corps Legislatif
- 22: Josephine did not accompany him
- 23: To accompany her to the baths of Plombieres
- 24: Bonaparte had got back from Egypt
- 25: The 18th Brumaire of the year 1798 was the decisive day
- 26: The Luxembourg was then too small for the three consuls
- 27: And intrusted the work to representative Gasparin
- 28: With the entry of Bonaparte into the Tuileries
- 29: To give Duroc a more important and imposing status
- 30: And when Bourrienne implored him
- 31: Louis Bonaparte was one of those deep
- 32: Josephine had visited the new fortune teller
- 33: That Duroc loves me only through ambitious motives
- 34: When Bourrienne had got through
- 35: Hortense was married to Louis Bonaparte
- 36: That courage Bonaparte possessed
- 37: Bourrienne said to him As first consul
- 38: So they would now try the effect of calumny
- 39: Hortense gazed at him with amazement
- 40: And that for but a single contredance
- 41: Hortense had firmly made up her mind that
- 42: But for the sake of poor Hortense
- 43: Bonaparte did not make himself king
- 44: Now that Josephine was an empress
- 45: To receive the papal benediction
- 46: The old royal palace at Fontainebleau had
- 47: As Ragideau looked at him in astonishment
- 48: And repaired to Saint Leu to see his son
- 49: Louis Bonaparte declared himself ready to accept this crown
- 50: Recalled Hortense to her mother's side
- 51: Hortense could do nothing to avert it
- 52: Hortense made a profound obeisance
- 53: And Hortense and her physician Corvisart at her side
- 54: Repaired to the empress at Malmaison
- 55: Hortense mutely obeyed the emperor's command
- 56: Until Holland was without power
- 57: Said of him By his abdication
- 58: Who was at Graetz at this time
- 59: Despotic ruler of Istria and Illyria
- 60: A passionate desperation took possession of Junot
- 61: Relieving Junot of his authority
- 62: But Hortense had accepted her destiny
- 63: But consisting of Hortensias in diamonds
- 64: Memoires sur la reine Hortense
- 65: One of the most zealous royalists
- 66: Queen Hortense alone preserved her composure and courage
- 67: To conjure her to leave for Novara at once
- 68: She caused Mademoiselle de Cochelet
- 69: And appointed him sovereign of the island of Elba
- 70: Correspondence between the queen and louise de cochelet
- 71: Count Nesselrode thinks you may be right
- 72: As Count Nesselrode informs me
- 73: Either at Novara or at Malmaison
- 74: The divorced empress at Novara
- 75: She conjures you not to go to Rambouillet
- 76: Queen Hortense had gone to Rambouillet
- 77: And in bringing them to Malmaison
- 78: Said the little Louis Napoleon
- 79: Leu Alexander hastened to Malmaison
- 80: Josephine pointed to her breast
- 81: As she extended her hand to Louise de Cochelet
- 82: This handkerchief of Countess Ducayla
- 83: Replied Countess Ducayla to her royal friend
- 84: Tendering him the ducal crown of Genoa
- 85: Whose action he had promised to approve and ratify
- 86: And elected a provisional government
- 87: ' This is characteristic of my Nesselrode
- 88: And conferred upon Hortense the title of Duchess of St
- 89: And call Eugene Viscount de Beauharnais
- 90: This personage was Madame de Stael
- 91: Madame de Stael was his superior
- 92: He allowed Madame de Stael to return to France
- 93: Have brought such misery upon France as Necker
- 94: As she once corrupted the tribunal
- 95: Called Madame de Stael a Chateaubriand in petticoats
- 96: Said Madame de Stael to Countess Ducayla
- 97: 'He is too dull for Madame de Stael
- 98: 'your majesty has not read Corinne
- 99: And Madame de Stael on his left
- 100: But the emperor monopolized politics
- 101: The era of despotic royal power
- 102: The day on which the populace demolished the Tuileries
- 103: Count d'Artois paid a visit to Malmaison
- 104: While the Marquis de Chimene and the Duke de Lauraguais
- 105: Footnote 37 Memoires d'une Femme de Qualite
- 106: In conformity with this etiquette
- 107: Memoires sur la Reine Hortense
- 108: The Duke of Otranto hastened to the Duchess of St
- 109: Memoires sur la Reins Hortense
- 110: Despres shall reply to this article at once
- 111: By means of an ostentatious interment
- 112: The Bonapartists as well as the royalists
- 113: Leu was no longer watched by the police
- 114: A perfect frenzy of dismay took possession of the royalists
- 115: Ney had gone over to the emperor
- 116: Napoleon entered the Tuileries
- 117: Napoleon extended his hand to Hortense
- 118: And in the parlors of Queen Hortense
- 119: In this alphabet each gem represented its initial letter
- 120: But to Malmaison to Malmaison
- 121: Hortense therefore repaired with the emperor to Malmaison
- 122: Blushing and hesitating Sire
- 123: As Talma approached the emperor
- 124: Hortense remained cold and indifferent
- 125: When Count Boyna imparted this intelligence to the duchess
- 126: Hortense parted the two weeping children
- 127: Sooty hand of the young Savoyard
- 128: ' said Madame de Montesquieu to him
- 129: When Hortense reproached her son for doing so
- 130: Arenenberg was a perfect temple of memory
- 131: He had accepted the tricolore of the empire
- 132: Louis Napoleon must therefore be removed
- 133: The storm first broke out in Modena
- 134: Footnote 59 La Reine Hortense
- 135: From Foligno to Civita Castellano
- 136: One of the sons of the Princess of Canino
- 137: Hortense quietly and resolutely confronted the future
- 138: That she could no longer remain in Foligno
- 139: She purposed embarking with her son at Corfu
- 140: Informed them that Queen Hortense
- 141: Were Hortense and her sick son
- 142: Charles de Labedoyere was also shot
- 143: See La Reine Hortense en Italie
- 144: Hortense recognized them at once
- 145: De Houdetot responded to her request
- 146: De Houdetot conducted the Duchess of St
- 147: Footnote 66 The Princess de Montfort was the wife of Jerome
- 148: She only left her son's side when Casimir Perrier came
- 149: Hortense was now inseparable from his bedside
- 150: But the presence of the duchess
- 151: Hortense listened to him tranquilly
- 152: But Hortense declined their proffered invitations
- 153: Hortense longed to be back at Arenenberg
- 154: Footnote 69 La Reine Hortense
- 155: The emperor now repaired to Boulogne
- 156: A breakfast was given me at the camp of Ambleteuse
- 157: Footnote 72 La Reine Hortense en Italie
- 158: Morfontaine appeared still more desolate
- 159: Beside which Hortense desired to pray
- 160: Arenenberg was now her world Arenenberg