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    Makers of History

    Josephine

    BY JOHN S. C. ABBOTT

    WITH ENGRAVINGS

    NEW YORK AND LONDON
    HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
    1904




    Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
    eight hundred and fifty-one, by

    HARPER & BROTHERS,

    in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
    of New York.

    Copyright, 1879, by SUSAN ABBOTT MEAD.




    [Illustration: JOSEPHINE.]




    PREFACE.


    Maria Antoinette, Madame Roland, and Josephine are the three most
    prominent heroines of the French Revolution. The history of their lives
    necessarily records all the most interesting events of that most fearful
    tragedy which man has ever enacted. Maria Antoinette beheld the morning
    dawn of the Revolution; its lurid mid-day sun glared upon Madame Roland;
    and Josephine beheld the portentous phenomenon fade away. Each of these
    heroines displayed traits of character worthy of all imitation. No
    one can read the history of their lives without being ennobled by the
    contemplation of the fortitude and grandeur of spirit they evinced. To
    the young ladies of our land we especially commend the Heroines of the
    French Revolution.




    CONTENTS.


    Chapter Page

    I. LIFE IN MARTINIQUE 13

    II. MARRIAGE OF JOSEPHINE 31

    III. ARREST OF M. BEAUHARNAIS AND JOSEPHINE 48

    IV. SCENES IN PRISON 68

    V. THE RELEASE FROM PRISON 81

    VI. JOSEPHINE IN ITALY 105

    VII. JOSEPHINE AT MALMAISON 130

    VIII. JOSEPHINE THE WIFE OF THE FIRST CONSUL 149

    IX. DEVELOPMENTS OF CHARACTER 171


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