Life of Napoleon III: Emperor of the FrenchA. Moore, 1856 - 546 pages |
Contents
| 13 | |
| 31 | |
| 47 | |
| 57 | |
| 85 | |
| 100 | |
| 115 | |
| 134 | |
| 287 | |
| 300 | |
| 315 | |
| 331 | |
| 358 | |
| 374 | |
| 389 | |
| 404 | |
| 146 | |
| 158 | |
| 169 | |
| 183 | |
| 208 | |
| 234 | |
| 262 | |
| 422 | |
| 442 | |
| 461 | |
| 481 | |
| 504 | |
| 527 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accused affairs arms army arrest arrived asked attempt authority Bonapartist Boulogne captivity Cavaignac Chamber Changarnier citizen Colonel command commissary confidence constitution Couneau coup d'état Court of Peers cries declared decree Duke duty election emperor empire executive exile favor France French friends glory hands honor Hortense hundred idea immediately insurrection interest king Lamartine Ledru Rollin legitimists letter liberty Louis Bonaparte Louis Na LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Louis Philippe means ment military minister ministry NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE National Guard never o'clock officers Orleanists Paris party passed Persigny political present president Prince Louis Napoleon Prince Napoleon prince's prison proclamation Queen Hortense received regard render replied representatives republic republican restored revolution Rome sentiments society soldiers soon Strasburg suffrage Thélin Thiers thing thought throne tion took tribune troops universal suffrage Vive votes whilst wish
Popular passages
Page 520 - If you will give me your word of honor that you will remain by this stone until our return, the expedition will proceed without you.
Page 392 - In presence of God, and before the French people, represented by the National Assembly, I swear to remain faithful to the Democratic Republic One and Indivisible, and to fulfil all the duties which the Constitution imposes upon me.
Page 506 - Art. 6. — The Minister of the Interior is charged with the execution of the present decree.
Page 507 - Vote, then, freely as citizens; but, as soldiers, do not forget that passive obedience to the orders of the chief of the Government is the rigorous duty of the army, from the general down to the soldier. It is for me, who am responsible for my actions before the people and posterity, to adopt the measures most conducive to the public welfare.
Page 511 - 89, and organized by the Emperor, is to be still your own, proclaim it by sanctioning the powers which I ask from you. " Then France and Europe will be preserved from anarchy, obstacles will be removed, rivalries will have disappeared, for all will respect, in the decision of the People, the decree of Providence.
Page 102 - I renew to you the expression of my tenderness and of my gratitude. " This morning the officers came in a body to wish me a happy new year. I was much gratified by this attention on their part.
Page 193 - ... object; and yet it is precisely since they have become useless that they are more rigorously enforced. " All the provisions for the supply of my daily wants are subjected to the most rigid scrutiny. " The attentions of my single faithful servant, who has been permitted to follow me, are encumbered by obstacles of every description. Such a system of terror has been established in the garrison and among the officials in the castle, that no individual dares raise his eyes towards me ; and it requires...
Page 511 - I have received from you. But if you believe that the cause of which my name is the symbol — that is...
Page 246 - I have preserved my honor unstained ;' I live without enjoyments, but also without remorse ; and every evening I go to repose in peace. No steps would have been taken by me to disturb the calm of my conscience and the repose of my life, had not my father signified an earnest desire of having me near him again, during ' his declining years. My filial duty roused me from a state of resignation, and I took a step of...
Page 391 - ... Paris, possesses all the qualifications of eligibility required by the 44th article of the Constitution ; whereas the ballot gave him the absolute majority of suffrages for the Presidency ; by virtue of the powers conferred on the Assembly by the 47th and 48th articles of the Constitution, I proclaim him President of the French Republic from this day until the second Sunday of May 1852 ; and I now invite him to ascend the tribune and take the oath required by the Constitution.