Identifier: womenbonapartesm02will (find matches)
Title: The women Bonapartes: the mother and three sisters of Napoléon I
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, H. Noel (Hugh Noel), 1870-1925
Subjects: Bonaparte family Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rtheless, she soon grew tired of the placeand dragged her mother off to Spa, which offeredher a wider choice of amusements—and admirers.It must be confessed, however, that in the midstof her frivolities, and of much that deserves aharsher name, she appears to have found leisureto be a very attentive daughter, in return forwhich Madame no doubt found it occasionallyconvenient to be a trifle blind. Pauline returned to France for the fetes andcelebrations of the Emperors birthday, and lostno time in surrendering herself to the joys of yetanother grande passion. Let it not be supposed,however, that in the eighteen months which hadelapsed since the flight of the timid Blanginifrom Turin—he was now, by the way, Kapell-vteister to brother Jerome at Cassel, and medi-tating his Fde Urgele, the work which is perhapshis best title to remembrance—Pauline hadexperienced any difficulty in filling the vacantplace in her affections. There was a certainM. Achille du Cormier, who, previous to the
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PAULINK BONAPARTE, PRINCESS BORGHESE KRdM THE IAINTING I.V MADAME LEBRUN AT VERSAILLES THE WOMEN BONAPARTES 189 departure of her Imperial Highness for Aix-la-Chapelle, enjoyed the distinction of having hisname pretty frequently coupled with hers, and,if rumour does not lie, he was not the only wor-shipper to whose vows the lady consented tolend S benevolent ear. But M. du Cormier and his coadjutors speedilyfound themselves relegated to oblivion, whenArmand Jules Iilisabeth de Canouville, major inthe 16th Dragoons and aide-de-camp to Berthier,Prince de Neufchatel, appeared upon the scene.Never was there a more dashing warrior, or onemore calculated to captivate a great ladys heart.For Armand Jules Elisabeth was no plebeianswashbuckler; he was a man of good family, ofeducation, of refinement, as much at home ina ball-room as on the battlefield, in the boudoiras in the bivouac, an accomplished dancer, amaker of verses, a consummate dandy, one ofthe most distino-uished of that band of ari

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