Queen Hortense

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Excerpt from Queen Hortense: A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era When Hortense ceased to be a queen by the grace of Napoleon, she none the less continued to be a poetess by the grace of God. Her poems are sympathetic and charming, full of tender plaintiveness and full of impas sioned warmth, which, however, in no instance oversteps the bounds of womanly gentleness. Her musical co m positions, too, are equally melodious and attractive to the heart. Who does not know the song, Va t'en, Gum, which Hortense wrote and set to music, and then, at Napoleon's request, converted into a military march? The soldiers of France once left their native land, in those days, to the sound of this march, to carry the French eagles to Russia, and to the same warlike harmony they have marched forth more recently, toward the same distant destination. This ballad, written by Hortense, survived. At one time everybody sang it, joyously, aloud. Then, when the Bourbons had returned, the scarred and crippled veterans of the Imalidee hummed it under their breath, while they whispered secretly to each other of the glory of La Belle France, as of a beautiful dream of youth, now gone forever. 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.