Memoirs of Napoleon, His Court and Family, Band 1R. Bentley, 1836 |
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Seite 20 - Napoleon was most offensive, and must have been sensibly felt by my brother, who was not only remarkable for the mildness of his temper and the amenity and grace of his manner, but whose society was courted in the most distinguished circles of Paris on account of his talents. He perceived in Bonaparte a kind of acerbity and bitter irony, of which he long endeavoured to discover the cause. ' I believe,' said Albert one day to my mother, ' that the poor young man feels keenly his dependent situation.
Seite 13 - ... in his fits of rage without shuddering. Though his smile was captivating, yet the expression of his mouth when disdainful or angry could scarcely be seen without terror. But that forehead which seemed formed to bear the crowns of a whole world ; those hands, of which the most...
Seite 285 - Berthier was small and ill-shaped, without being actually deformed ; his head was too large for his body; his hair, neither light nor dark, was rather frizzed than curled ; his forehead, eyes, nose, and chin, each in the proper place, were, however, by no means handsome in the aggregate. His hands, naturally ugly, became frightful by a habit of biting his nails: add to this, that he stammered much in speaking; and that if he did not make grimaces, the agitation of his features was so rapid as to...
Seite 183 - ... the army of Italy. There is in all this a curious parity of events : but death soon ended the career of one of the young heroes. That which ought to have constituted the happiness of his life was the cause of Joubert's death ; namely, his marriage. But how could he refrain from loving the woman he espoused...
Seite 187 - She thought it likely he would come by the way of Burgundy, and therefore Louis and she set off for Lyons. Madame Bonaparte was a prey to great and well-founded uneasiness. Whether she was guilty or only imprudent, she was strongly accused by the Bonaparte family, who were desirous that Napoleon should obtain a divorce. The elder M. de Caulaincourt...
Seite 96 - ... misery was frightful — the depreciation of the assignats went on augmenting with the public suffering — the poor, totally without work, died in their hovels, or issuing forth in desperation, joined the robbers, who infested all the roads in the country. " Bonaparte was then of great service to us. We had white bread for our own consumption; but our servants had only the black bread of the Sections, which was unwholesome and hardly eatable. Bonaparte sent us every day some rolls for breakfast,...
Seite 13 - He was told that if he would beg pardon he should be forgiven. He protested that he was innocent, but he was not believed. If I recollect rightly, his mother was at the time on a visit to M. de Marbeuf, or some other friend.
Seite 190 - She appeared calm though far from being easy, for her extreme paleness and the convulsive movement she evinced whenever an unexpected noise met her ear, gave her features a ghastly air. In .these moments she appeared to me truly like the mother of the Gracchi. And her situation added force to the idea ; she had perhaps more at stake than that famous...
Seite 226 - ... consent, otherwise so valuable to me, will become null, unless, at this moment, you can declare here in their presence, that you willingly acquiesce in it. The step I am at this moment taking, is not perhaps altogether consistent with established forms — I am aware it is not; but you will pardon me, if you reflect that I am a soldier, frank even to roughness, and desirous of ascertaining that in the most important act of my life I am not deceiving myself. Will you then condescend to tell me...
Seite 190 - The revolution of the 8th was completed, and Paris was no longer agitated. We went to see Madame Laetitia Bonaparte, who lived with Joseph. She appeared calm though far from being easy, for her extreme paleness and the convulsive movement she evinced whenever an unexpected noise met her ear, gave her features a ghastly air. In .these moments she appeared to me truly like the mother of the Gracchi. And her situation added force to the idea ; she had perhaps more at stake than...