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Updated: May 15, 2025
I received a message from Count Finckenstein yesterday morning, desiring to speak to me between twelve and one.
Her name was Mademoiselle de Voss, and she came of a good house, being cousin to one of the King’s Ministers, M. de Finckenstein, and sister of a President of the Chamber. “This beauty, who to my mind is very ugly,” wrote Mirabeau, “is a mixture of prudery and cynicism, of affectation and ingenuousness; she has a natural wit of a kind, some schooling, manias rather than desires, a gaucherie which she strives to cover by an appearance of naïveté.... All her charm lies in her complexion, and even that I find wan rather than white; a very beautiful neck.
That will give much pleasure to the Belgians, and will serve to divert your mind. I see with pain that you are not wise. Grief has bounds which it should not pass. Preserve yourself for your friend, and believe in all my affection." On the same day the Emperor wrote as follows to Hortense: "Finckenstein, May 20th, 1807.
"That his Prussian majesty, desirous of seizing every opportunity of showing his friendship and attention to the king, had ordered him, Count Finckenstein, to take the earliest moment of acquainting me with this event, and at the same time to give me a copy of the declaration, which I here enclose that his chargé d'affaires in London had likewise received orders to inform the king's ministers on this subject, and to communicate to them the declaration."
Cloud. On the same day in which Josephine arrived at Luchen, the Emperor wrote to her from the Vistula as follows: "Finckenstein, May 14th, 1807. "I can appreciate the grief which the death of poor Napoleon has caused. You can understand the anguish which I experience. I could wish that I were with you, that you might become moderate and discreet in your grief.
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