A narrative of the events which have taken place in France, from the landing of Napoleon Bonaparte, on the first of March, 1815, till the restoration of Louis xviii |
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Strona 135 - The bishop of the diocese had ordered that all due honours should be rendered to the piety and good works of the deceased. The funeral sermon was preached by the Protestant president, in the pulpit of a Catholic church, to a numerous Catholic auditory, the Catholic clergy attending the service. The corpse was laid in the tomb with mingled rites; the lighted tapers, and the Catholic dirge, the prayers of the Genevan church, and the tears of the mourning peasantry. You have heard of the object of this...
Strona 109 - Vive 1'Empereur" from the soldiers and populace. Having thus obtained possession of the second city in France, he assumed, without hesitation, his former dignity, entitling himself " Napoleon, by the grace of God, and the constitutions of the empire, Emperor of the French.
Strona 148 - The troops were foraging in a neighbouring village, and were about to commit disorders, which would have caused considerable loss to the proprietors without benefit to themselves, — such as piercing the banks, or forcing the sluices of some fish-ponds. While they were thus employed, and their officers looking on, they were astonished to hear the word of command bidding them to cease, pronounced in their own language, by a person in the dress of the upper class of peasants.
Strona 150 - The movement was electric. The soldiers threw down their arms, and falling prostrate on the ground, according to the custom of their country, covered their heads with sand. It was the prostration of the heart. On Kosciusko's return to his house in the neighbourhood of this scene, he found a Russian military post established to protect it. The The Emperor Alexander, having learnt from M.
Strona 131 - Allah !' says he to the chief priests of Cairo. 'There is no other God, but God ; Mahomet is his prophet, and I am his friend. The divine Koran is the delight of my soul, and the object of my meditation.
Strona 57 - ... assembly, and offering no guarantee except to a small number of arrogant men whose pretensions are hostile to its rights. Soldiers, the imperial throne alone can guarantee the rights of the people, and especially the first of interests, that of our glory. We are going to march to drive from our territory those princes, the auxiliaries of foreigners; the nation will not only aid us with its vows, but will follow the impulse we shall give it. The French people and myself rely on you. We will not...
Strona 197 - Europe, bear witness to our patience and fidelity; it is our perseverance that we have to regret, and the blood of three millions of Frenchmen. Go, tell your brother that we will trust him no longer; we will ourselves undertake the salvation of our country/' Lucien and the ministers had nothing to reply to the gravity of these observations.
Strona 28 - Paris. There was, however, no supernatural agency in this business ;there was nothing even very astonishing in this revolutionary phantasmagoria. It was scarcely to: be imagined that Bonaparte would have thrown himself with so much rashness and precipitation into the midst of France, with a handful of followers, and have attempted to traverse a country through which, but a few months before, he had passed to his place of exile, loaded with the execrations of its inhabitants, and,- even under the...
Strona 388 - The equality of civil and political rights, " The liberty of the press, " The liberty of worship, " The representative system,
Strona 43 - Saulnier the following proclamation : — " Officers and Soldiers ! the cause of the Bourbons is for ever lost. The lawful dynasty, which the French nation has adopted, is about to ascend the throne. It is to the Emperor Napoleon alone, our sovereign, that belongs the right of reigning over our fine country, &c. Soldiers, I have often led you to victory, I will now lead you to join that immortal phalanx which the Emperor Napoleon is conducting to Paris, and which will be there in a few days ; and...