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QUEEN HORTENSE
A Life picture of the Napoleonic Era
BY
L. MUeHLBACH
AUTHOR OF PRINCE EUGENE AND HIS TIMES, JOSEPH II, AND HIS COURT,
MERCHANT OF BERLIN, ETC.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY
CHAPMAN COLEMAN
1910


CONTENTS.

BOOK I.
_DAYS OF CHILDHOOD AND OF THE REVOLUTION._
CHAPTER
I.--Days of Childhood.
II.--The Prophecy.
III.--Consequences of the Revolution.
IV.--General Bonaparte.
V.--The Marriage.
VI.--Bonaparte in Italy.
VII.--Vicissitudes of Destiny.
VIII.--Bonaparte's Return from Egypt.

BOOK II.
_THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND._
CHAPTER
I.--A First Love.
II.--Louis Bonaparte and Duroc.
III--Consul and King.
IV.--The Calumny.
V.--King or Emperor.
VI.--Napoleon's Heir.
VII.--Premonitions.
VIII.--The Divorce.
IX.--The King of Holland.
X.--Junot, the Duke d'Abrantes.
XI.--Louis Napoleon as a Vender of Violets.
XII.--The Days of Misfortune.
XIII.--The Allies in Paris.
XIV.--Correspondence between the Queen and Louise de Cochelet.
XV.--Queen Hortense and the Emperor Alexander.
XVI.--The New Uncles.
XVII.--Death of the Empress Josephine.

BOOK III.
_THE RESTORATION._
CHAPTER
I.--The Return of the Bourbons.
II.--The Bourbons and the Bonapartes.
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