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A Page From The History Of Napoleon.*
A PAGE FROM THE HISTORY OF NAPOLEON . *
THIS paper xvill be neither a diatribe , nor a specimen of flattery inspired by the circumstances Avhich it relates . We have an instinctive horror of political allusions , Avhatever may be then * form ; as religion forbids us to praise or commend men of certain notoriety , a sentiment equally high forbids us to condemn them . We are about to relate a history of devotion from that great epoch , Avhich is called nothing more nor less than an Empire : —
I . Napoleon had returned to Paris , after a brilliant campaign , surrounded Avith all imaginable official pomp ; he had quitted it , on the contrary , without even announcing his departure , at night , and almost alone . at
At six o ' clock he Avas seen at a ball , given by the empress , the Theatre Francais ; at eleven he disappeared , dressed in a travelling costume , in a post-chaise , Avith one aide-de-camp ; at daybreak he was thirty leagues from Paris . Napoleon , xvhilst his reign lasted , strove to surround his throne xvith those wandering knightsthose fierce weeks of
, a scattered aristocracy , xvho were dispersed in all directions , and were to be found in every clime—gloomy and disdainful , like most of those who suffer ; xvho were meditative and unyielding , as it became priests to be xx'hose altars had been polluted , and their cloisters outraged , but xvho yet remained faithful to those cloisters , and to the remnants that remained of then * altars .
Napoleon sometimes succeeded , but more frequently failed . It was at the commencement of the Spanish campaign , that the emperor xvas present at a representation of the Manlius of La Fosse , performed at the Theatre Francais . On leaving the house he found a post-chaise , as has been said , in xvaiting , together Avith an aide-de- . AU being ready for his sudden
camp departure , he embraced the empress hastily and set out . The next ex'ening he xvas riding over the level ground upon the outskirts of La Vendee , xx'hich is still named the Bocage . The time of year xvas winter . The sky was murky and misty ; hoar frost sparkled upon the leafless branches of the trees . The
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Page From The History Of Napoleon.*
A PAGE FROM THE HISTORY OF NAPOLEON . *
THIS paper xvill be neither a diatribe , nor a specimen of flattery inspired by the circumstances Avhich it relates . We have an instinctive horror of political allusions , Avhatever may be then * form ; as religion forbids us to praise or commend men of certain notoriety , a sentiment equally high forbids us to condemn them . We are about to relate a history of devotion from that great epoch , Avhich is called nothing more nor less than an Empire : —
I . Napoleon had returned to Paris , after a brilliant campaign , surrounded Avith all imaginable official pomp ; he had quitted it , on the contrary , without even announcing his departure , at night , and almost alone . at
At six o ' clock he Avas seen at a ball , given by the empress , the Theatre Francais ; at eleven he disappeared , dressed in a travelling costume , in a post-chaise , Avith one aide-de-camp ; at daybreak he was thirty leagues from Paris . Napoleon , xvhilst his reign lasted , strove to surround his throne xvith those wandering knightsthose fierce weeks of
, a scattered aristocracy , xvho were dispersed in all directions , and were to be found in every clime—gloomy and disdainful , like most of those who suffer ; xvho were meditative and unyielding , as it became priests to be xx'hose altars had been polluted , and their cloisters outraged , but xvho yet remained faithful to those cloisters , and to the remnants that remained of then * altars .
Napoleon sometimes succeeded , but more frequently failed . It was at the commencement of the Spanish campaign , that the emperor xvas present at a representation of the Manlius of La Fosse , performed at the Theatre Francais . On leaving the house he found a post-chaise , as has been said , in xvaiting , together Avith an aide-de- . AU being ready for his sudden
camp departure , he embraced the empress hastily and set out . The next ex'ening he xvas riding over the level ground upon the outskirts of La Vendee , xx'hich is still named the Bocage . The time of year xvas winter . The sky was murky and misty ; hoar frost sparkled upon the leafless branches of the trees . The