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In this manner fell Luxemburg and Duesseldorf. The Batavian republic was permitted to subsist, but dependent upon France; Belgium was annexed to France, A.D. 1795. On the retreat of the Prussians, Mannheim was surrendered without a blow by the electoral minister, Oberndorf, to the French. Wurmser arrived too late to the relief of the city.
All the way from Duesseldorf to Wohlgebaum he played the Circuit of Gardens with nice clean Gravel on the Ground and Dill Pickles festooned among the Caraway Trees. Every time the Military Band began to breathe a new Waltz he would have Otto bring a Tub of the Dark Brew and a Frankfurter about the size of a Sash Weight.
"You ought not," intervened Tiet Nikonich politely, "to go out after eight o'clock on these damp nights. I would not have ventured to detain you, but a physician from Duesseldorf on the Rhine, whose book I am now reading and can lend you if you like, and who gives excellent advice, says...."
The Count who once played whist at Duesseldorf with Marie Louise for his partner, against the Duchess of Montebello and the Prince of Neufchatel, says in speaking of the occasion: "As often happens, the game was carelessly played; all watched the cards only with their eyes, and gave their attention to what was going forward about the table, to which the Emperor came every few minutes to say a few pleasant words to the Empress or to joke with the Prince of Neufchatel and me.
Hoche had received much information concerning the face of the country from a map of unusual fulness and accuracy, the maker of which, he heard, resided at Duesseldorf. At the storming of Duesseldorf by the French army, Hoche previously ordered, that the house and property of this man should be preserved, and intrusted the performance of the order to an officer on whose troop he could rely.
That chance was lost, and Rumania found herself standing squarely in the track of the stream of ammunition which used to flow down from Duesseldorf to the Turks when I was at the front with the Turks, practically all the ammunition boxes I saw, and there were hundreds of them, were marked "Gut uber Rumanien" and, later, in Russia's path to Bulgaria and Servia.
The Emperor carried away with him a most favorable impression of the Dutch, whose seriousness, morality, love of order, and industry had continually struck him, so that he shared his brother Louis's partiality for a nation as interesting in the present as in the past. November 2, Napoleon and his wife reached Duesseldorf.
'A sham dragon, shamming sleep, has destroyed more virgins than all the heathen emperors, says old Hans Aepfelmann of Duesseldorf. Margarita's foot was tapping quicker. 'Speak, Dietrich! she said. Dietrich declared to the Club that at this point he muttered, 'We love you. Margarita was glad to believe he had not spoken of himself.
After resting for two days at Duesseldorf, Napoleon and Marie Louise went on to Cologne, when they visited the Chapel of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, and a grand Te Deum was sung in the famous Cathedral, They returned by Liege, Givet, Mezieres, and Compiegne, reaching Saint Cloud after an absence of nearly three months, the longest visit that the Emperor had made in the provinces of either the old or the new France.
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