Episodes of French History During the Consulate And the First Empire
Episodes of French History During the Consulate And the First Empire
Pardoe, Miss (Julia), 1806-1862
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The chevalier was too gallant and too thoroughly a courtier to tell his tale with per- fect accuracy, and he consequently replied that his intelligence partook of both the qualities Her Majesty had named ; and when Marie Louise desired him to explain so ambiguous an answ^er he said respectfully : — " ' Madam, what I sought to imply was, that it is bad for the present, but good as regards the future. The Emperor will not, he declares, separate himself from Josephine at this particular crisis ; b...ut he allowed me to perceive in the clearest manner, and beyond all possibility of doubt, that should circumstances one day induce him to consent to a divorce desired by the whole Empire, he will solicit the hand of Your " Almost hidicrous as such a report as this upon so delicate a subject would have appeared to an unpreju- diced listener, Marie Louise, nevertheless, seriously believed in its truth; and her vanity and self-love w^ere both gratified. She saw in perspective her brow cinctured by the Imperial diadem; and in the first rush of her delight she bestowed upon the chevalier the rank of a geueral.
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