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Title: The love affairs of Napoleon
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Turquan, Joseph, 1854-1928
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: London : Lane
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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hich it istrue would hardly pass for those of St. Paul, butwhich are really such as a devout lover might havedictated. He talks to me of nothing but her and heraffairs. I will not attempt an account of all the fetesand presents he is preparing for her and of which hehas given me the minutest description ; I will contentmyself with giving you an idea of his state of mindby mentioning that he told me that when he is marriedhe will give peace to the world and all his leisure toZaire.1 And as a matter of fact the Emperor, who had sentthe Prince of Wagram to Vienna (in which, by theway, he displayed a want of tact) to make a formalrequest for the hand of the Archduchess and to marryher by proxy, dictated the following words to hismessenger, who faithfully repeated them to the youngPrincess: Political considerations may have in- 1 Briefwechsel der Kunigin Katharina mit dcm Kunig Friedrich vonWiirtemberg, Vol. I, p. 290. A letter quoted by M. Arthur Levy in hisadmirable work Napoleon intime.
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MARIE LOUISEFrom n painting by an unknown artist (Gerard?) THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF NAPOLEON 341 fluenced the decision of the two Sovereigns, but it isabove all with your hearts consent, Madame, that theEmperor desires to win you. As the day of his august brides entry into Francedrew near, Napoleon became more and more possessedwith those feelings of delicious expectancy which havegiven rise to the saying, in which there is no smallmeasure of truth, that the happiest part of matrimonyis the courtship. He could not sit still; he would lookat the Archduchesss portrait scores of times in a day.He ordered a suit at Legers, the fashionable tailor;it was an ornamental affair with a lot of embroideryabout it which Pauline, who knew everything aboutmen, their dress included, had advised him to havemade. He amused himself by trying it on, and aftercontemplating the features of the future Empress, hewould look at himself in the glass with a sort of com-placent air which seemed to say : Nee sum adeo

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