Excerpt from Marie Louise and the Invasion of 1814 The army, inspired by a patriotism more fervent than that of the Parisians, did its duty and more than its duty. It fought and suffered with a heroism worthy of a better fate. It is hard to say which were the more admirable, the beardless youths or the gray haired veterans. Men like them would have saved France, if France could have been saved; but, in Spite of their tireless energy, their indomitable courage, they felt that they were doomed by fate. Napoleon, with all his genius, knew no more of those lucky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Memoirs of the Empress Marie Louise IN 1814, while Napoleon was in exile in the Island of Elba, the Empress Marie Louise and her grandmother, the Queen of Naples, Marie Caroline, were together in Vienna. The one, deprived of the Crown of France, was demanding possession of her new State, the Duchy of Parma; the other, who had fled from Sicily to escape from the yoke of her pretended protectors, the English, had come to claim the restitution of her kingdom of Naples, where Murat continued to reign with the con nivance of Austria. This Queen, Marie Caroline, daughter of the great Empress Marie Therese, and sister of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, had spent her life in hatred of the French Revolution, and of Napoleon, one of whose most celebrated victims she was. Well, at the very moment when the Austrian Court was labouring to the utmost extent of its power B2 eieaioirs OF the empress jiiarie louise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.