![]() ![]() On the 23rd of October 1812, sheltering for a moment in Paris, on the Rue des Saints-Pères, at the Hôtel Lavalette, Madame Lavalette, my hostess, being deaf and furnished with her long ear-trumpet, roused me: ‘ Monsieur! Monsieur! Bonaparte is dead! General Malet has killed Hulin. Whom did she seek, that lost stranger to our world? Towards whom did she make her way through the wastes of the sky? Louis Adolphe Thiers - President of the French Republic (p175, 1845)įor three years I had been in retirement at Aulnay: from my pine-clad hill, in 1811, I had followed with my eyes the comet which during the night fled towards the wooded horizon she was beautiful and melancholy, and, like a queen, drew her long train behind her. Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, Faisant Suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution Française, Vol 12 Such was the dishonour to which despotism had condemned France: one saw in the salons what one met with in the streets, creatures distracting themselves from their own lives by singing out their misery to divert the passers-by. One was forced to go to the ball, death in one’s heart, weeping inwardly for relatives or friends. Returning from the Berezina, there was no less of a requirement to dance: that is what one learns from the Souvenirs pour servir à l’histoire, of Queen Hortense. ‘ The Empire,’ says Monsieur Ségur, ‘ could only count on men aged by time or war, and children! Almost all the mature men, where were they? Women’s tears, mothers’ cries, spoke clearly enough! Bowed laboriously over the land, which without them would have remained untilled, they cursed the war he personified.’ When Bonaparte arrived, preceded by his bulletin, there was general consternation. Book XXII: Chapter 26: The Island of Elbaīook XXII: Chapter 1: The ills of France – Forced celebrations – A sojourn in my Valley – The Legitimacy awakes.Book XXII: Chapter 25: The exhumation of the remains of Louis XVI – My first 21st of January at Saint-Denis.Book XXII: Chapter 24: First Minister – I publish Réflexions Politiques – Madame la Duchesse de Duras – I am named as Ambassador to Sweden.Book XXII: Chapter 23: Were the Royalists to blame for the Restoration?.Book XXII: Chapter 22: The first year of the Restoration.Book XXII: Chapter 21: Louis XVIII at Compiègne – His entry into Paris – The Old Guard – An Irreparable Fault – The Declaration of Saint-Ouen – The Treaty of Paris – The Charter – Departure of the Allies.Book XXII: Chapter 20: Napoleon’s Journey to the Isle of Elba.Book XXII: Chapter 19: The arrival of the Comte d’Artois – Bonaparte’s abdication at Fontainebleau.Book XXII: Chapter 18: The Proclamations of the Provisional Government – The Constitution proposed by the Senate. ![]() Book XXII: Chapter 17: The Hôtel de la Rue Saint-Florentin – Monsieur de Talleyrand.Book XXII: Chapter 16: The Senate issue the Decree of Deposition.Book XXII: Chapter 15: The publication of my pamphlet – De Bonaparte et Des Bourbons.Book XXII: Chapter 14: Bonaparte at Fontainebleau – The Regency at Blois.Book XXII: Chapter 13: The Allies enter Paris.Book XXII: Chapter 12: The proclamation of General the Prince Schwarzenberg – Alexander’s speech – The capitulation of Paris.Book XXII: Chapter 11: War at the gates of Paris – The appearance of Paris – Battle at Belleville – The Flight of Marie-Louise and the Regency – Monsieur de Talleyrand remains in Paris.Book XXII: Chapter 10: I begin printing my pamphlet – A note from Madame de Chateaubriand.Book XXII: Chapter 9: Notes which became the pamphlet: De Bonaparte et des Bourbons – I take an apartment on the Rue de Rivoli – The notable Campaign of 1814 in France.Book XXII: Chapter 8: The Pope set at liberty.Book XXII: Chapter 7: The Legislature convened – Then adjourned – The Allies cross the Rhine – Bonaparte’s anger – New Year’s Day 1814.Book XXII: Chapter 6: The Battle of Leipzig – Bonaparte’s return to Paris – the Treaty of Valençay.Book XXII: Chapter 5: The Campaign in Saxony, or the Campaign of The Poets.Book XXII: Chapter 4: The Battles of Lützen, Bautzen and Dresden – Reverses in Spain.Book XXII: Chapter 3: Defections – The deaths of Lagrange and Delille.Book XXII: Chapter 2: The Pope at Fontainebleau.Book XXII: Chapter 1: The ills of France – Forced celebrations – A sojourn in my Valley – The Legitimacy awakes.This work may be freely reproduced, stored and transmitted, electronically or otherwise, for any non-commercial purpose. Kline © Copyright 2005 All Rights Reserved Book XXII: Napoleon - Defeat and Exile: to 1815
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