The Court of the Empress Josephine by baron Arthur Léon Imbert de Saint-Amand
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XX. THE EMPRESS AT MAYENCE XXI. THE RETURN OF THE EMPRESS TO PARIS XXII. THE DEATH OF THE YOUNG NAPOLEON XXIII. THE END OF THE WAR XXIV. THE EMPEROR'S RETURN XXV. THE COURT AT FONTAINEBLEAU XXVI. THE END OF THE YEAR 1807 I. THE BEGINNING OF THE EMPIRE. "Two-thirds of my life is passed, why should I so distress myself about what remains? The most brilliant fortune does not deserve all the trouble I take, the pettiness I detect in myself, or the humiliations and shame I endure; thirty years will destroy those giants of power which can be seen only by raising the head; we shall disappear, I who am so petty, and those whom I regard so eagerly, from whom I expected all my greatness. The most |
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