A Child's History of FranceHarper & brothers, 1893 - 406 pages |
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Popular passages
Page 355 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 355 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Page 363 - The allied powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the only obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, the Emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath, declares that he renounces for himself and his heirs, the thrones of France and Italy, and that there is no personal sacrifice, even that of life, •which he is not ready to make for the interests of France.
Page 270 - Go tell your master that we are here by the will of the people and that we shall not leave except at the point of the bayonet.
Page 345 - The Empress again embraced her tenderly, and setting her down, said to me : " You can have little idea how much I have suffered when any one of you has brought a child to me ! Heaven knows that I am not envious, but in this one case I have felt as if a deadly poison were creeping through my veins when I have looked upon the fresh and rosy cheeks of a beautiful child, the joy of its mother, but, above all, the hope of its father...
Page 67 - I have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity ; and therefore I die in exile...
Page 363 - ... was represented to him as the wish of the army. But if Napoleon abdicated, it was only in favour of the succession of his son, and the regency of the Empress. The act of abdication which he wrote with his own hand, was as follows:— " The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon was the only obstacle to the restoration of peace in Europe, the Emperor, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to resign the throne, to quit France, and even to sacrifice his life for the...
Page 317 - I am going to lead you into the most fertile plains in the world ; you will there find large cities, rich provinces ; you will there find honour, glory, and wealth.
Page 369 - The eagle, with the national colours, shall fly from steeple to steeple, even to the towers of Notre Dame.
Page 333 - Lebrun to you from the field of battle. I have beaten the Russian and Austrian armies, commanded by the two Emperors. I am a little fatigued. I have bivouacked eight days in the open air, through nights severely cold. I shall pass to-night in the chateau of Prince Kaunitz, where I go to sleep for two or three hours. The Russian army is not only beaten, but -destroyed. I embrace you. NAPOLEON.