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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