A Dictionary of Napoleon and His Times

by Hubert N B Richardson

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...with the result that Mme. Junot was debarred from entering society for some little while, so severe was the physical castigation she received from the hands of her indignant spouse. When ruin stared her in the face on the mental collapse of Junot she averted this--as is stated on good authority--ty lending herself to the royalist intrigues for restoring the Bourbons in 1814. During the Hundred Days she was also active against her former benefactor. After 1815 she settled in Rome, cultivating the literary and artistic society of that city, and writing her Memoirs, which were published in 1831-4 in eighteen volumes. Memoirs.--Mme. Junot occupies the opening chapters of her Mimoires with an account of her childhood and girlhood. Perhaps the most interesting event described in these early chapters is that of the death of N.'s father in her mother's house at Montpellier. Her father had heard that three Corsicans had just arrived at a miserable inn in the town, and that one of them was very ill. Her mother, who was a Corsican herself, at once bade him inquire regarding them. Her father, who disliked Corsicans, was willing to show M. Buonaparte all the attention which his situation demanded, but Mme. Junot's mother would have nothing less-than the conveyance of the invalid to her own house. So it was that Mme. Junot's mother was at the bedside of N.'s father when he breathed his last. He strongly recommended to her his young son, N., who had just left Brienne and entered the military school at Paris. She was kindness itself to Joseph and to his uncle Fesch, who had accompanied N.'s father to France--a kindness which Joseph never forgot. They are full of racy matter, these opening chapters. In those days, as well as in later life, the authoress tells that N. could ... Read Less

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...with the result that Mme. Junot was debarred from entering society for some little while, so severe was the physical castigation she received from the hands of her indignant spouse. When ruin stared her in the face on the mental collapse of Junot she averted this--as is stated on good authority--ty lending herself to ... Read More