Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel
CONTENTS
The population of Vienna was paralyzed with terror; a heavy gloom weighed down all minds, and the strength of the stoutest hearts seemed broken. Couriers had arrived today from the camp of the army, and brought the dreadful tidings of an overwhelming defeat of the Austrian forces. Bonaparte, the young general of the French Republic, who, in the course of one year (1796), had won as many battles and as much glory as many a great and illustrious warrior during the whole course of an eventful life—Bonaparte had crossed the Italian Alps with the serried columns of his army, and the most trusted military leaders of Austria were fleeing before him in dismay. The hero of Lodi and Arcole had won new victories, and these victories constantly diminished the distance between his army and the menaced capital of Austria.
Archduke Charles had been defeated by Massena, and driven back to Villach; Bernadotte had reached Laybach; the citadels of Goritz, Triest, and Laybach had surrendered; Klagenfurth, after a most desperate struggle, had been forced to open its gates to the conquerors; Loudon, with his brave troops, had been dispersed in the Tyrol; Botzen had opened its gates to General Joubert, who, after a brief sojourn, left that city in order to join Bonaparte, who, in his victorious career, was advancing resistlessly toward Vienna.
Such were tidings which the couriers had brought, and these tidings were well calculated to produce a panic in the Austrian capital. While the court and the nobility were concealing their grief and their sorrows in the interior of their palaces, the populace rushed into the streets, anxiously inquiring for later intelligence, and still hopeful that God in His mercy might perhaps send down some ray of light that would dispel this gloom of anguish and despair.
While the masses were bewailing this new misfortune with the manifestations of despair, while they assembled in small groups to comment vociferously on this last and most dreadful event of the day, all of a sudden Hungarian hussars galloped up and commanded the people, in the most peremptory manner, to stand aside and to open a passage for the wagons which were about to enter the market from one of the adjoining streets.
L. Mühlbach
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A Historical Novel
Translated From The German By F. Jordan
CAMPO FORMIO.
CHAPTER I. DREADFUL TIDINGS.
CHAPTER II. MINISTER VON THUGUT.
CHAPTER III. THE INTERVIEW.
CHAPTER IV. THE TWO MINISTERS.
CHAPTER V. THE HOUSE IN THE GUMPENDORFER SUBURB.
CHAPTER VI. JOSEPH HAYDN
CHAPTER VII. GENERAL BONAPARTE
CHAPTER VIII. THE TREATY OF CAMPO FORMIO.
THE YOUNG QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.
CHAPTER IX. QUEEN LOUISA.
CHAPTER X. THE KING’S RECOLLECTIONS.
CHAPTER XI. THE YOUNG KING.
CHAPTER XII. FREDERICK GENTZ.
CHAPTER XIII. THE INTERVIEW WITH THE MINISTER OF FINANCE.
CHAPTER XIV. THE MEMORIAL TO FREDERICK WILLIAM III
CHAPTER XV. THE WEDDING.
CHAPTER XVI. MARIANNE MEIER.
CHAPTER XVII. LOVE AND POLITICS.
FRANCE AND GERMANY.
CHAPTER XVIII. CITOYENNE JOSEPHINE BONAPARTE.
CHAPTER XIX. BONAPARTE AND JOSEPHINE.
CHAPTER XX. THE RECEPTION OF THE AMBASSADORS.
CHAPTER XXI. FRANCE AND AUSTRIA.
CHAPTER XXII. THE BANNER OF GLORY.
CHAPTER XXIII. MINISTER THUGUT.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE FESTIVAL OF THE VOLUNTEERS.
CHAPTER XXV. THE RIOT.
LAST DAYS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER XXVI. VICTORIA DE POUTET.
CHAPTER XXVII. RASTADT.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE JUSTIFICATION.
‘VICTORIA.’
CHAPTER XXIX. THE ASSASSINATION.
CHAPTER XXX. JEAN DEBRY.
CHAPTER XXXI. THE COALITION.
CHAPTER XXXII. THE FRIEND OF PEACE.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE LEGITIMATE WIFE.
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE EIGHTEENTH OF BRUMAIRE.
THE PEACE OF LUNEVILLE
CHAPTER XXXV. JOHANNES MULLER.
CHAPTER XXXVI. THUGUT’S FALL.
CHAPTER XXXVII. FANNY VON ARNSTEIN.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE RIVALS.
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE LEGACY.
CHAPTER XL. THE FIRST CONSUL.
CHAPTER XLI. TWO GERMAN SAVANTS.
THE THIRD COALITION.
CHAPTER XLII. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.
CHAPTER XLIII. NAPOLEON AND THE GERMAN PRINCES.
CHAPTER XLIV. QUEEN LOUISA’S PIANO LESSON.
CHAPTER XLV. THE CONFERENCE.
CHAPTER XLVI. THE OATH AT THE GRAVE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT.
THE FALL OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE.
CHAPTER XLVII. EVIL TIDINGS.
CHAPTER XLVIII. BEFORE THE BATTLE.
CHAPTER XLIX. “GOTT ERHALTE FRANZ DEN KAISER!”
CHAPTER L. PATRIOTISM.
CHAPTER LI. JUDITH.
“MARIANNE, PRINCESS VON EIBENBERG.”
CHAPTER LII. NAPOLEON AND THE PRUSSIAN MINISTER.
CHAPTER LIII. JUDITH AND HOLOFERNES
CHAPTER LIV. THE FALL OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE.
THE BATTLE OF JENA.
CHAPTER LV. A GERMAN BOOKSELLER AND MARTYR.
CHAPTER LVI. THE ARREST.
CHAPTER LVII. A WIFE’S LOVE.
CHAPTER LVIII. THE WOMEN OF BRAUNAU.
CHAPTER LIX. THE LAST HOUR.
CHAPTER LX. PRUSSIA’S DECLARATION OF WAR.
CHAPTER LXI. A BAD OMEN.
CHAPTER LXII. BEFORE THE BATTLE.
CHAPTER LXIII. THE GERMAN PHILOSOPHER.
Язык
Английский
Год издания
2003-01-01
Темы
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Fiction; Luise, Queen, consort of Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1776-1810 -- Fiction; Prussia (Germany) -- History -- Frederick William III, 1797-1840 -- Fiction; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Campaigns -- Germany -- Prussia -- Fiction