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Title: Historical memoirs of the Emperor Alexander I and the court of Russia
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Choiseul-Gouffier, Sophie de Tisenhaus, comtesse de, 1752-1817 Patterson, Mary Berenice, translator
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Publisher: Chicago, McClurg
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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word to his ambassador at Paris, I saidhow happy I should be to feel myself under hisprotection even in France, and to owe to him per-haps all the prosperity which I might there enjoy. Alexander answered that he should be glad tocontribute to it and that he was going to give mea letter longer than my memory. After the emperor had left us, my mother and Italked of the goodness of that angel and a feelingof tenderness mingled with sadness came over uswhich I now regard as a presentiment only tootrue. We thought that beings so good and so per-fect do not remain long on the earth, because heavenalways hastens to reclaim those who belong there. The same day, seeing the emperor pass rapidlyin an open calèche, my mother said : Really itwas very foolish for us to give ourselves trouble onthat subject. He is young and enjoys such perfecthealth. God will preserve him ; and we laughedat our fears. Yet one found no longer in Alexander that frankgaiety which had formerly distinguished him. He 246
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«HAND DUKE CON8TANTINE, Emperor Alexander L seemed discontented with the Polish government, withthe business done by the diet, with the expenses,which exceeded the means of the State. He seemedto seek solitude. Often, without giving notice to anyof his retinue, he went alone to walk in the environsof Warsaw and had his dinner brought there. Never-theless he enjoyed good health ; his prestige inRussia and in Europe remained the same — alwayspreponderant. Soon after I returned to Lithuania I received adespatch from the court containing a letter for theRussian ambassador at Paris, inclosing a copy for me.I had the satisfaction to learn at the same time thaton account of an express recommendation from hisMajesty the lawsuit had been arrested. 247 Historical Memoirs of the CHAPTER XXV WHEN I returned to France a great event wasagitating the public mind, which promised tocause important changes in Europe and perhapsbring back the times of the crusades and reawakenthe spirit of chivalry.

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