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Madame Joseph Bonaparte, who was always very amiable, took no part in these family quarrels; therefore she could easily determine what part to take when fortune smiled on Josephine. As to Madame Bacciocchi, she gave free vent to her ill-humour and disdain; the consequence was that her sister-in-law could never endure her.
There, too, were his sisters; Elise, proud and self-contained, who at this period married a noble but somewhat boorish Corsican, Bacciocchi; and Pauline, a charming girl of sixteen, whose hand the all-powerful brother offered to Marmont, to be by him unaccountably refused, owing, it would seem, to a prior attachment. This lively and luxurious young creature was not long to remain unwedded.
I remember Madame Bacciocchi coming one day to visit her brother with a little volume in her hand; it was 'Atala'. She presented it to the First Consul, and begged he would read it. "What, more romances!" exclaimed he. "Do you think I have time to read all your fooleries?" He, however, took the book from his sister and laid it down on my desk.
"Do you complain of my affection when I wished to marry you to my sister?" "But the thing is impossible now! Your three sisters are all married one to General Leduc, one to Prince Bacciocchi, and the third to Murat." "In short," said Bonaparte, laughing, "you feel easy and settled in your mind. You think yourself rid of my alliance." "Oh, general!" exclaimed Roland.
Madame Joseph Bonaparte, who was always very amiable, took no part in these family quarrels; therefore she could easily determine what part to take when fortune smiled on Josephine. As to Madame Bacciocchi, she gave free vent to her ill-humour and disdain; the consequence was that her sister-in- law could never endure her.
Bonaparte, at that time paid so little attention to what was doing in the literary world that he was not aware of Chateaubriand being the author of 'Atala'. It was on the recommendation of M. de Fontanel that Madame Bacciocchi tried this experiment, which was attended by complete success. The First Consul read 'Atala', and was much pleased with it.
General Ordener's mission Arrest of the Due d'Enghien Horrible night-scene -Harrel's account of the death of the Prince Order for digging the grave The foster-sister of the Duo d'Enghien Reading the sentence The lantern General Savary The faithful dog and the police My visit to Malmaison Josephine's grief The Duc d'Enghien's portrait and lock of hair Savary's emotion M. de Chateaubriand's resignation M. de Chatenubriand's connection with Bonaparte Madame Bacciocchi and M. de Fontanes Cardinal Fesch Dedication of the second edition of the 'Genie du Christianisme' M. de Chateaubriand's visit to the First Consul on the morning of the Due d'Enghien's death Consequences of the Duo d'Enghien's death Change of opinion in the provinces The Gentry of the Chateaus Effect of the Due d'Enghien's death on foreign Courts Remarkable words of Mr.
Her monument is in the Bacciocchi Chapel in San Petronio, Bologna. Caroline, the wife of Murat, was the only one of the family untrue to Napoleon. Very ambitious, and forgetting how completely she owed her Kingdom of Naples to her brother, she had urged Murat in 1814 to separate from Napoleon, and, still worse, to attack Eugene, who held the north of Italy against the Austrians.
His letter to Augerean His correspondence with the Directory and proposed resignation Explanation of the Directory Bottot General Clarke Letter from Madame Bacciocchi to Bonaparte Autograph letter of the Emperor Francis to Bonaparte Arrival of Count Cobentzel Autograph note of Bonaparte on the conditions of peace. Bonaparte was delighted when he heard of the happy issue of the 18th Fructidor.
From these sentiments of jealousy and envy sprang the enmity which the three sisters of Bonaparte, Madame Elise Bacciocchi, Madame Pauline Borghese, and Madame Caroline Murat, cherished against Josephine, and which her gentle words and kind heart could never assuage. Josephine was in their way she must therefore fall.
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