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Updated: June 6, 2025
Josephine did not possess the cowardice to commit suicide; she was ready to receive the fatal blow, but she could not plunge the dagger into her own heart. Napoleon, unable to endure these tortures, longed to bring them to an end. He secretly made all the necessary arrangements, and communicated to the first chancellor, Cambaceres, his irrevocable resolution to be divorced from the empress.
Their scanty purses were opened, and a subscription entered into for a very valuable diamond, which, with the millions of the Arch-Chancellor, gave satisfaction to all parties; and even Joseph Bonaparte was reconciled, upon the consideration that Cambaceres has no children, and that, therefore, the Prince will expire with the Grand Officer of State.
A forced smile would then relax the livid countenance of Cambaceres, and was usually the only reply of the Second Consul, who, however, on one occasion said in my hearing, "Come, come, have done with this joking." One thing which gave Bonaparte great pleasure when in the country was to see a tall, slender woman, dressed in white, walking beneath an alley of shaded trees.
In the large cabinet of ceremonies were gathered on this day, at noon, the emperor, the Empress Josephine, the emperor's mother, the King and Queen of Holland, the King and Queen of Westphalia, the King and Queen of Naples, the Vice-king Eugene, the Princess Pauline Borghese, the high-chancellor Cambaceres, and the secretary of civil affairs, St. Jean d'Angely.
Lucchesini and Markow would give dinners every day like Cambaceres; scatter their money about, buy men who are to be sold, and thus cause our propositions to be rejected. This would be a fine way to manage matters!"
Toward noon Cambaceres arrived. As a general thing Bonaparte devoted half an hour to his chancellor; then suddenly, without warning, he would rise and say: "Au revoir, Josephine! au revoir, Hortense! Come, Bourrienne, let us go to work." This speech, which recurred almost regularly in the same words, was no sooner uttered than Bonaparte left the salon and returned to his study.
Genevieve Louis Bonaparte's visit to the Temple General Lauriston Arrest of Villeneuve and Barco Villeneuve wounded Moreau during his imprisonment Preparations for leaving the Temple Remarkable change in Georges Addresses and congratulations Speech of the First Consul forgotten Secret negotiations with the Senate Official proposition of Bonaparte's elevation to the Empire Sitting of the Council of State Interference of Bonaparte Individual votes Seven against twenty His subjects and his people Appropriateness of the title of Emperor Communications between Bonaparte and the Senate Bonaparte first called Sire by Cambaceres First letter signed by Napoleon as Emperor Grand levee at the Tuileries Napoleon's address to the Imperial Guard Organic 'Senatus-consulte' Revival of old formulas and titles The Republicanism of Lucien The Spanish Princess Lucien's clandestine marriage Bonaparte's influence on the German Princes Intrigues of England Drake at Munich Project for overthrowing Bonaparte's Government Circular from the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the members of the Diplomatic Body Answers to that circular.
The title of "prince," with two hundred thousand francs a year, was a poor consolation when men like Lebrun and Cambacérès had the precedence as arch-treasurer and arch-chancellor, while most unendurable of all they drew salaries of three hundred and fifty thousand francs.
"Commissioning kings, erecting thrones, martello towers, Cambaceres count noses, Austrians, fine dressed, like Pompey's troops." "B. fences with sceptres, his martello towers are thrones, he alone is, France." Another Dissolution of Parliament having taken place this year, he again became a candidate for the city of Westminster.
The day on which the First Consul promulgated the law of public worship, he rose early, and entered the dressing-room to make his toilet. While he was dressing I saw Joseph Bonaparte enter his room with Cambaceres. "Well," said the First Consul to the latter, "we are going to mass. What do they think of that in Paris?"
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