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Title: The public and private history of Napoleon the Third, emperor of the French; with biographical notices of his most distinguished ministers, generals, relatives, and favorites, and a narrative of the events of the war in Italy
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Schmucker, Samuel Mosheim, 1823-1863. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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amiable and unambitious man died at Florence, in January,1846. No. XVI. ■Memoir of Hortense BeauJiarnois, Ex-queen of Holland.^ HoiiTENSE Fanny de Beauharnois, the mother of Napo-leon III., was born at-Paris on the 10th of April, 1783, at aperiod when the French nobility was still resplendent with thatprosperity which was the reward of service done to the State,in arms or magistracy. Paris had not yet learned to gazeenviously upon this elevated class, then as pre-eminent by theelegance of its manners, as by the enjoyment of privileges towhich it attached little importance. Every young girl offamily could then, not perhaps aspire openly to the throne,but at least flatter herself with the belief of rising to it withoutdif&culty. Madame de Maintenon had shown that royal bloodwas not essential to the easy exercise of royal power. The history of childhood is rather the story of the familythan of the infant. Hortense gave promise of wit, grace and From the French of Count de la Garde.
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ENG? BY JOHNSAIfTmN. e (RiT ^ OF NAPOLEON III. 291 amiabilitj, but the fond anticipations of maternal partialitywere not realized until after a series of distressing calamities,of which some account may not be inappropriate. Her father, the Vicomte de Beauharnois, was a youngeison of a noble and wealthy family of Martinique. He enteredthe army at an early age, and obtained distinction in severalaffairs as a major in the forces under Kochambeau, then fight-ing for the cause of American freedom. Upon his return toFrance, without disgracing the creed of liberty by any un-worthy action, he adhered to the principles he had defended,which perhaps had been prematurely developed by hisAmerican associations. He espoused with enthusiasm thedoctrines of the revolution, and became a zealous advocateof the reform of abuses, and of a well regulated liberty. Rather a philosopher than a courtier, Beauharnois hailedwith joy the dawn of that liberty in France, which he hadseen resplendent in America. I

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