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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. THE APARTMENTS. THEIR PROTECTION. TO form a notion of the habits of life and the familiar manners of Napoleon in his private apartments, the best plan, no doubt, is to take the apartments of the Tuileries as a type, and we are called on to reconstruct these apartments entirely by means of documents of indifferent authority, or insufficient for the purpose, in the almost complete absence of actual representation. No more than the shadow of the Palace remains in which one can seek for the shadow of the Emperor. Napoleon, indeed, spent days at Compiegne, at Rambouillet, and at Fontainebleau, but scarcely more numerous than at Schonbrunn or at Potsdam; from these places no more particulars can be gathered than from the head-quarters at Marrac and at Mayence, or from the imperial palaces of Strasburg and of Bordeaux. It was, in fact, at the Tuileries and at Saint-Cloud that he lived longest, and each of these places is now a blank. It may be said that, on an average, from Floreal of the year XII to April 1814, the Emperor's official residence was at the Tuileries for nearly three months a year. This does not mean that he never left it, nor that he slept there every night; without being a wanderer like Louis XIV, or still more Louis XV, who was always transferring his dulness from Versailles to Marly, to Choisy, to Saint-Hubert, to Bellevue, to Compiegne, to Fontainebleau, Napoleon was far from settled. When evening came he would decide suddenly to start for Malmaison or Saint-Cloud, would go occasionally and establish himself at the Elysee, would start off and pass a day or even a night at one of the chdteaux which he had given to his companions of war, ?Grosbois and Grignon, for example; and this was not noticed in the official reports of his movements, it was not even in ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217515764 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217515762 |
| Weight | 0.31 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.21 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 88 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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