Queen Hortense:A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era
A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era
M?h L.
9781465539045
pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
One moment of bliss is not too dearly bought with death, says our great German poet, and he may be right; but a moment of bliss purchased with a long lifetime full of trial and suffering is far too costly. And when did it come for her, this moment of bliss? When could Hortense Beauharnais, in speaking of herself, declare, I am happy? Now, let suffering and sorrow come upon me, if they will; I have tasted felicity, and, in the memories it has left me, it is imperishable and eternal! Much, very much, had this daughter of an empress and mother of an emperor to endure
