could not disapprove, but I told her I could only maintain silence and
the same conduct was pursued, but then the probability of success was on
my compliments in a very cold manner. In a few days after Josephine
set.html">set on the marriage.html">marriage.html">marriage.html">marriage of Louis with her daughter; and prayers, entreaties,
were employed to win the First Consul to her purpose.
On the 4th of January the First Consul, after dinner, entered our
gone to the opera, I believe."--"Tell him, as soon as he returns, that I
marriage to take place in two days at the latest. I will give him
but he must set out the day after his marriage with his wife for Toulon.
some conclusion, let me know to-night whether this plan will satisfy
--"Will she like that?"--"She must like it." Bonaparte gave me these
domestic warfare had been raging, and that to put an end to it he had
returned; I reported to him, word.html">word for word, the proposition of the First
he may keep his daughter for me. I am going to see the -----," and, with
daughter of a Spanish banker, who was later Minister of Joseph, and
amiable, but she possessed a vast fortune, and Bonaparte himself
his widow married a M. Fabvier, and Napoleon gave his Duchy of
and Josephine received from him the promise that Louis and Hortense
great regret of Hortense, and probably to the satisfaction of Duroc.
avoided him as much as possible. She always manifested as much
sentiments have not been effaced.
--[The marriage of Louis Bonaparte took place on the 7th January.
Hortense wept daring the whole of the ceremony. Josephine, knowing
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