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FOUR ENTREMETS.-Salad, a la Rachel; Vol-au-vent of preserved greengages; Plombieres cream iced; Braized celery with brown sauce. TWO REMOVES. Boiled fowls, oyster sauce; Glazed tongue A la jardiniere. Two ENTREES. Lamb cutlets, asparagus, peas; Boudins of rabbits, a la Reine. SECOND COURSE. Lobster salad; Green goose.
By a singular coincidence it was on 'La Pomone' that she wished to make the journey; that is to say, on the very same vessel which in her early youth had brought her from Martinique to France. General Bonaparte, finally yielding to the wishes of his wife, promised to send 'La Pomone' for her, and bade her go in the meantime to take the waters at Plombieres.
I am satisfied with what I see, and I am tolerably well. I hope that you will get as much good from the waters as I get from going about and from seeing the camps and the sea. Eugene has left for Blois. Hortense is well. Louis is at Plombieres. I am very anxious to see you. You are always essential to my happiness. A thousand kind messages." The Emperor wrote again from Ostend, August 14, 1804:
He is sick of body; spectre-haunted withal, more than ever; often thinks Friedrich, provoked, will refuse him leave. And, alas, he would so fain NOT go, as well as go! Leave for Plombieres, leave in the angrily contemptuous shape, "Go, then, forever and a day!" Voltaire can at once have: but to get it in the friendly shape, and as if for a time only?
I recollect one circumstance which was well calculated to excite suspicion. Prince Eugene proposed going to the waters of Plombieres to join his sister Hortense. The horses, the carriages, and one of the Prince's aides de camp had already arrived at Plombieres, and his residence was prepared; but he did not go.
Depend on me for life. Not quite intending that extremity, either of them, I should think; but both aware that living together was a thing to be avoided henceforth. As Voltaire himself will experience, to his cost! Voltaire, once safe on Saxon ground, was in no extreme haste for Plombieres.
I related above that Josephine thought she was to rejoin her husband in Egypt, and consequently that her stay at the springs of Plombieres would be of short duration but her accident led her to think that it would be prolonged indefinitely; she therefore desired, while waiting for her complete recovery, to have with her her daughter Hortense, then about fifteen years of age, who was being educated in the boarding-school of Madame Campan.
"I hope to see you, perhaps at Aix in Savoy, if the waters at Plombières do not agree with you; perhaps in Switzerland, where the Emperor has permitted me to journey. We shall be able to appoint for ourselves a rendezvous where we may meet. Then I will relate to you with the living voice those details which it would require too much time to write. I intend to leave next Monday for Aix in Savoy.
Before relating how I came to enter her household, it is proper to mention how Carrat himself came into her service, and at the same time narrate some anecdotes in regard to him, which will show what were the pastimes of the inhabitants of Malmaison at that date. Carrat happened to be at Plombieres when Madame Bonaparte went there to take the waters.
We saw some odd-looking folks there, which indemnified us a little for spinach dressed in lamp-oil, and red asparagus fried with curdled milk. Who would not have been amused to see the Malmaison gourmands seated at a table so shockingly served! In no record of history is there to be found a day passed in distress so dreadful as that on which we arrived at Plombieres.
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