Identifier: imperialcourtsof00bidw (find matches)
Title: Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Bidwell, Walter Hilliard, 1798-1881, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Courts and courtiers. (from old catalog) Statesmen. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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resistance of Piusdisappointed his views. Napoleon at last imagined that byi-emoving Pius to Fontainebleau, he might succeed in over-coming his firmness. Pius was again obliged to make along journey with the greatest secrecy. He arrived at Fon-tamebleau in June, 1812, and was lodged in the Imperialpalace and treated with marked respect. Napoleon had setout on his Russian expedition. After his return from thatdisastrous campaign, in December, 1812, he went to seethe Pope, embraced him, and treated him with studied at-tention; he also allowed several cardinals who were atParis to repair to Fontainebleau; and at last, chiefly NAPOLEON I. AND THE CONCORDAT. 57 through theu persuasions, he jjrevailed upon the Pope tosign a new concordat tlie twenty-fifth of January, 1813.Napoleon hastened to j)ubUsh the articles of the Concordat,and to give them the force of laws of the empire; afterwhich he granted free access to the Pope, to aU cardinalsand others who chose to repair to Fontaiuebleau. ^
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1 TS-aiSEATEIIElQ) Ig.V TIHIE MO® S N TJilE3!H! VI!S!1 LOUIS XVI., KING OF FEANCE. Among the many of this worlds magnates, monarchs andpotentates, kings and emperors, it has fallen to the lot ofcomparatively few to sufler a violent death. Of this num-ber was the amiable l^nt unfortunate King of France, LouisXVI. He lived in troublous times. The terrible stormsof the French Revolution had 1jeen long gathering by themisrule of previous kings. The dark clouds had becomethick and murky and highly chaiged with pohtical Hgh1>nings and thunderings. At length the storm burst, and adreadful carnage ensued. France was deluged with blood.Among the numerous victims was Louis XVI., whose endforms a sad tragedy in historic annals. Louis XVI., King of France, was the second son of thePrince Dauphin, son of Louis XV., and of Maria Jose^shaof Saxony, daughter of Frederick Augustus, Kmg of Po-land. He was Ijorn at Versailles, and named Due de Berri,1754, became dauphin by the death of his father, 1

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