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XIII.--Napoleon's Last Adieu.
BOOK IV.
_THE DUCHESS OF ST. LEU._
CHAPTER
I.--The Banishment of the Duchess of St. Leu.
II.--Louis Napoleon as a Child.
III.--The Revolution of 1830.
IV.--The Revolution in Rome and the Sons of Hortense.
V.--The Death of Prince Napoleon.
VI.--The Flight from Italy.
VII.--The Pilgrimage.
VIII.--Louis Philippe and the Duchess of St. Leu.
IX.--The Departure of the Duchess from Paris.
X.--Pilgrimage through France.
XI.--Fragment from the Memoirs of Queen Hortense.
XII.--The Pilgrim.
XIII.--Conclusion.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
General Bonaparte suppressing the Revolt of the Sections, _Frontispiece_.
View of the Tuileries.
Portrait of Queen Hortense.
Portrait of Madame de Stael.
QUEEN HORTENSE.
BOOK I.
_DAYS OF CHILDHOOD AND OF THE REVOLUTION._
CHAPTER I.
DAYS OF CHILDHOOD.
"One moment of bliss is not too dearly bought with death," says our
great German poet, and he may be right; but a moment of bliss purchased
with a long lifetime full of trial and suffering is far too costly.
And when did it come for her, this "moment of bliss?" When could
Hortense Beauharnais, in speaking of herself, declare, "I am happy? Now,
let suffering and sorrow come upon me, if they will; I have tasted
felicity, and, in the memories it has left m
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