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Title: A life of Napoleon Boneparte:
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d theKing of Prussia, and the map of Europe was made over. The relations between the royal parties seem to have beenfor the most part amiable. Napoleon became very fond ofAlexander I. at Tilsit. Were he a woman I think I shouldmake love to him, he wrote Josephine once. Alexander,young and enthusiastic, had a deep admiration for Na-poleons genius, and the two became good comrades. TheKing of Prussia, overcome by his losses, was a sorrowfulfigure in their company. It was their habit at Tilsit to goout every day on horseback, but the king w^as awkward,always crowding against Napoleon, beside whom he rode,and making his two companions wait for him to climb fromthe saddle when he returned. Their dinners together weredull, and the emperors, very much in the style of two care-less, fun-loving youths, bored by a solemn elderly relative,were accustomed after dinner to make excuses to go homeearly but later to meet at the apartments of one or the other,and to talk together until after midnight.
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NAPOLEON RECEIVING QUEEN LOUISE OF PRUSSIA^ JULY 6, 1807. By Gosse. Versailles gallery, • 176 CAMPAIGN OF 18o5 177 Just before the negotiation were completed, Queen Louisearrived, and tried to use her influence with Napoleon toobtain at least Magdeburg. Napoleon accused the queen toLas Cases of trying to win him at first by a scene of hightragedy. But when they came to meet at dinner, her policywas quite another. The Queen of Prussia dined with meto-day, wrote Napoleon to the empress on July 7th. Ihad to defend myself against being obliged to make somefurther concessions to her husband; . . . and the nextday, The Queen of Prussia is really charming; she is fullof coquetterie towards me. But do not be jealous; I aman oilcloth, off which all that runs. It would cost me toodear to play the galant. The intercessions of the queen really hurried on the treaty.When she learned that it had been signed, and her wishesnot granted, she was indignant, wept bitterly, and refusedto go to the seco

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