History of the Kings of France: Containing the Principal Incidents in Their Lives from the Foundation of the Monarchy to Louis Philippe, with a Concise Biography of Each. Illustrated by Seventy-two Portraits of the Sovereigns of France |
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Page 26 - AD 511, at the age of forty-five, and was buried in the church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, which he had caused to be built.
Page 244 - Angoulème, had gone to join Wellington. They published a proclamation from Louis XVIII to the French, dated Hartwell-house, 1st February, 1814, which induced a party, first in Bordeaux, and afterwards in Paris, to declare for the Bourbons. The king promised entire oblivion of the past, the support of the administrative and judicial authorities, the preservation of the new code, with the exception of those laws which interfered with religious doctrines ; security to the new proprietors against legal...
Page 242 - The mountain cloud That night hangs round him, and the breath Of morning scatters, is the shroud That wraps the conqueror's clay in death.
Page 251 - Montpensier died in the year 1807. Count Beaujolais was in feeble health, and was ordered by the English physicians to visit a warmer climate. The duke accompanied him to Malta; from thence to Sicily ; but, before their arrival at the latter place, the young prince died. After many adventures, the duke met his mother at Mahon, from whom he had been separated sixteen years. In November, 1809, he was married, at Palermo, to the princess Amelia, daughter of the king of Sicily. After the fall of Napoleon,...
Page 205 - March 31, of the same year. He had long been consumed by a slow fever, which affected his temper, and made him irritable and restless. He fancied that change of place would bring relief to his disordered frame, and roved incessantly from one residence to another. He died at Rambouillet in the fifty-third year of his age, and the thirty-second of his reign. This king's magnificence accompanied him to the last. He had the most splendid funeral that had...
Page 232 - ... through the capital, were far from rendering her acceptable to the majority of the people; while the Count d'Artois, the king's brother, who had expressed himself in the most unguarded terms against the perseverance of the parliament, stood exposed to all the hatred of a lively and insulted people.
Page 244 - March 31, that they would treat neither with Napoleon nor with any member of his family. Talleyrand, Jaucourt, the duke of Dalberg, Louis and De Pradt contributed not a little to this in an interview with Alexander, the king of Prussia, Schwartzenberg, Nesselrode, Pozzo di Borgo, and Liechtenstein...
Page 234 - ... disappointed ambition must be unfelt amidst the anguish which overwhelms the broken heart. That anguish was not confined to the bosom of the king, the queen, and his sister. The princess, his daughter, had attained that age when perhaps the soul is most susceptible of strong impressions, and its sensibility most exquisite. Even the young prince, who is only in his ninth year, caught the infectious sorrow...
Page 247 - The monarch» assembled at Pilnitz (qv) afterwards promised him to support the cause of his family. Louis XVI took the oath to maintain the constitution, Sept 14th, 1791, and invited the French princes who were at Coblentz to return to France; but they refused to obey, and protested against the new constitution — equally disobedient to their country and their king. Hereupon the legislative assembly of the nation withdrew from the count of Artois, May 19, 1792, the appanage of 1,000,000 francs,...