Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts Volume 3 - Couverture rigide

Chambers, William; Chambers, Professor Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1355053552 ISBN 13 : 9781355053552

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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Holland, but who resigned his throne, not long after the birth of this child, in consequence of an honourable and high-minded feeling, that he could not hold it consistently with the interests of Holland and the ties which bound him to his brother and, through him, to France. His mother was Queen Hortense, the beautiful, amiable, and accomplished daughter of the Empress Josephine by her first husband, the Vicomte de Beauharnais. The marriage of Hortense de Beauharnais with Louis Bonaparte was blessed by the church in the person of the Cardinal Caprera; for the stepfather of the bride, as First Consul, had already become convinced of the expediency of ecclesiastical re-establishment in France. The marriage, however, was rrot a happy one. At first the newly wedded pair resided in a small house situated in the Rue de la Victoire in Paris (the same house, in fact, as that which had been the home of Napoleon and Josephine during the first years of their own wedded life); but it was at the Tuileries, and in the society of her mother, that Hortense first became a popular favourite in Paris. Her husband, though possessed of many good and even great qualities, was shy and reserved in manner ;and his outward appearance scarcely partook of the lustre which then began to display itself in a social point of view at the court of his brother; for his scholastic tastes were not in harmony with the martial display in which the first Napoleon delighted. But Hortense, young, handsome, a poetess, a musician, graceful and kind in manner, like her mother, and soon known to the people of France as the composer of the song and march entitled Va ten Guerrier at the stirring tones of which the heart of many a brave man thrilled both in the camp and at the court of France she, Hortense, soon became an object of popular enthusiasm ;and all the more so because she was the daughter of Jo
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1355053552
• ISBN 13: 9781355053552
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 520
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible