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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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succeeded on the pedestalthe white flag of the Bourbons, which in itsturn had replaced the original statue of Napo-leon en Cesar Romain, by Chaudet. An in-teresting detail, unknown to most Parisians, isthat the equestrian statue of Henri IV. on thePont Neuf was cast with the bronze of ChaudetsNapoleon. When Napoleon III. ascended thethrone, he replaced the Petit Caporal ofSeurre (whose decorative appearance he did notconsider asses dynastique ) by a copy ofChaudets Cesar, made by the sculptor Dru-mont. That figure still crowns the summit of thecolumn, which was re-erected after the desecra-tion by the Commune.—A. D. 218 TALLEYRANDS TREACHERY 219 gained little more than the name of a victory, they were toodiscouraged to continue the war, and the emperor sued forpeace. This peace was concluded in October. Austria wasforced to give up Trieste and all her Adriatic possessions,to cede territory to Bavaria and to the Grand Duchy ofWarsaw, and to give her consent to the continental system.
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MARIE LOUISE IN ROYAL ROBES. 181O. Marie Louise, Archduchess dAutriche, Imperatrice, Reine, et Regente.Engraved by Mecou, after Isabcy. CHAPTER XVII THE DIVORCE A NEW WIFE AN HEIR TO THE CROWN TO further the universal peace he desired, to preventplots among his subordinates who would aspire tohis crown in case of his sudden death, and to assurea succession, Napoleon now decided to take a step long inmind—to divorce Josephine, by whom he no longer hopedto have heirs. In considering Napoleons divorce of Josephine, it mustbe remembered that stability of government was of vitalnecessity to the permanency of the Napoleonic institutions.Naj)oleon had turned into practical realities most of the re-forms demanded in 1789. True, he had done it by the exer-cise of despotism, but nothing but the courage, the will, theaudacity of a despot could have aroused the nation in 1799.Napoleon felt that these institutions had been so short a timein operation that in case of his death they would easily t

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