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Title: The history of Hortense, daughter of Josephine, Queen of Holland, mother of Napoleon III
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
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Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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with the remembranceof some distinguished personage or celebratedevent. Indeed, her museum might almost becalled an abridgment of contemporary history.Music was the next amusement; and the duch-ess sang, accompanying herself with the samecorrect taste which inspires her compositions.She had just finished the series of drawings in-tended to illustrate her collection of romances.How could I avoid praising that happy talentwhich thus personifies thought? The nextday I received that beautiful collection as aremembrance. I took my leave at midnight, perhaps with-out even the hope of another meeting. I lefther as the traveller parts from the flowers ofthe desert, to which he can never hope to re-turn. But, wherever time, accident, or destinymay place me, the remembrance of that daywill remain indelibly imprinted alike on mymemory and heart. It is pleasing to pay hom-age to the fallen greatness of one like Hortense,who joins the rare gift of talents to the charmsof the tenderest sensibilitv.
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nORTENSE AT ARENEMBEKG. 1819.) Peaceful Days, yet Sad. 249 Scenery at Arenemberg. The residence of Hortense in Augsburg wasin a mansion, since called Pappenheim Palace, •in Holy Cross Street. After the graduationof her children, Hortense, with Louis Napo-leon, spent most of their time at Arenemberg,interspersed with visits to Eome and Florence.The beautiful chateau was situated upon aswell of land, with green lawns and a thickgrowth of forest trees, through which therewere enchanting views of the mountain andof the lake. The spacious grounds were em-bellished with the highest artistic skill, withterraces, trellis-work woodbines, and rare ex-otics. ^ The views, writes an English visitor, which were in some places afforded throughthe woods, and in others, by their rapid de-scent, carried over them, were broken in amanner which represented them doubly beau-tiful. From one peep you caught the smallvine-clad island of Eeichman, with its cottagegleams trembling upon the twilighted lake.Fr

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