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Life of the Empress Josephine, Wife of Napoleon I.

Cecil B. Hartley

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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BEAUIIARNAIS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY. 61 CHAPTER III. Betuharnais charged with conspiracy?Arrest of Nevil?Josephine's account of the examination of her children, and of her visit to Nevil in prison?Robespierre affects moderation?Josephine is deceived by this?Letter from Beauharnais explaining accurately the true state of affairs?Josephine arrested?Her account of the arrest in a letter to her auqt. The consequences of the conversation of Beauharnais with his children in the prison of the Luxembourg were serious. He was charged with conspiracy against the republic. The newspapers, under the direction of Robespierre, announced this conspiracy as endangering the public safety, and gave.their readers to understand that all concerned in it would be punished without mercy. The administration suffered no time to elapse before fulfilling these denunciations of severity. The day following the publication of their exaggerated account of a very simple event, Nevil was arrested, in a manner which, as Josephine remarked, g;ive a scandalous publicity to its fictitious crime. But though its commencement was thus industriously bruited abroad, the scene of his captivity was so carefully concealed, that his nearest relatives, a mother, and betrothed bride, continued in ignorance of his fate, or whether he was alive or dead; till Madame de Beauharnais, gratefully desirous of serving one who suffered on her husband's account, at length discovered the wretched committee-man in one of the most loathsome of the revolutionary dungeons. These circumstances we learn from her own letters. But the hero of this feigned conspiracy, the vicomte himself, a celebrated republican commander, either appeared too great a personage thus to be struck obscurely and in the dark, or his accusers, by mean...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Life of the Empress Josephine, Wife of Napoleon I.. To get started finding Life of the Empress Josephine, Wife of Napoleon I., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 96

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0217505287

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BEAUIIARNAIS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY. 61 CHAPTER III. Betuharnais charged with conspiracy?Arrest of Nevil?Josephine's account of the examination of her children, and of her visit to Nevil in prison?Robespierre affects moderation?Josephine is deceived by this?Letter from Beauharnais explaining accurately the true state of affairs?Josephine arrested?Her account of the arrest in a letter to her auqt. The consequences of the conversation of Beauharnais with his children in the prison of the Luxembourg were serious. He was charged with conspiracy against the republic. The newspapers, under the direction of Robespierre, announced this conspiracy as endangering the public safety, and gave.their readers to understand that all concerned in it would be punished without mercy. The administration suffered no time to elapse before fulfilling these denunciations of severity. The day following the publication of their exaggerated account of a very simple event, Nevil was arrested, in a manner which, as Josephine remarked, g;ive a scandalous publicity to its fictitious crime. But though its commencement was thus industriously bruited abroad, the scene of his captivity was so carefully concealed, that his nearest relatives, a mother, and betrothed bride, continued in ignorance of his fate, or whether he was alive or dead; till Madame de Beauharnais, gratefully desirous of serving one who suffered on her husband's account, at length discovered the wretched committee-man in one of the most loathsome of the revolutionary dungeons. These circumstances we learn from her own letters. But the hero of this feigned conspiracy, the vicomte himself, a celebrated republican commander, either appeared too great a personage thus to be struck obscurely and in the dark, or his accusers, by mean...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Life of the Empress Josephine, Wife of Napoleon I.. To get started finding Life of the Empress Josephine, Wife of Napoleon I., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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