The Burlesque Napoleon Being the Story of the Life And the Kingship of Jerome N
The Burlesque Napoleon Being the Story of the Life And the Kingship of Jerome N
Sergeant, Philip Walsingham, 1872-
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" The audience was over, and Reinhard was glad to escape after a trying half-hour. In spite of Jerome's manner of life, the reader of Rein- hard's bulletins cannot help sympathising with the King in this interview. But neither Rein- hard nor Jollivet seems to have felt any degrada- tion in the work of investigating "what went on in the kitchen. " Jollivet, almost at this very time, was sending to Champagny a strong denunciation of Jerome and his government. " I have lost hope, " he wrote, "that... His Majesty the King of Westphalia, in spite of his excellent qualities and his extreme sagacity (the attribute of his family), can extricate himself from the embarrassing position into which he has been brought by evil counsels, inexperience of ruling, over-ardent passions, and his irresistible tendency towards prodigality. " 208 The Art of Bankruptcy Unfortunately for Jerome, there was no over- statement in these words of the more hostile of his two spies. The few hundred thousands which von Billow had obtained from the Jews for the King's Civil List had satisfied only for a short time even the household expenses.
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