Queen Hortense and Her Friends, Vol. 1 of 2

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Excerpt from Queen Hortense and Her Friends, Vol. 1 of 2: 1783-1837 In these volumes I have attempted to paint, upon the shifting background of her times, a picture of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland and Duchesse de Saint-Leu, which should be neither the work of a partisan nor of an enemy, neither unduly favourable nor unnecessarily harsh. The judgments formed upon the artiste-reine at times when political feeling ran high have been not unnaturally coloured by prejudice and passion. u Some, " says M. Nauroy, " have made a goddess of her, others have not been able to forgive her Napoleon III." The daughter of Josephine, and still more the mother of the Emperor, could scarcely expect an unbiassed verdict, and if the voice of the flatterer was not dumb in days when the Beauharnais cult was dominant, the animosities of party hatred have not failed to make the balance even. There are those, indeed, who would grudge her so much as the claim to compassion supplied by her sorrows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.