NAPOLEON. JOSEPHINE. MARIA LOUISA, DUKE OF REICHSTADT, MADAME LAETITIA BONAPARTE, CHARLES BONAPARTE, LUCIEN BONAPARTE, MARSHAL JUNOT, CHARLES BONAPARTE, PAULINE BONAPARTE, ELIZA BONAPARTE, JEROME BONAPARTE, LOUIS BONAPARTE, CARDINAL FESCH, LOUISA, QUEEN OF PRUSSIA, JOSEPH BONAPARTE.

Probably no writer has had the same opportunities for becoming acquainted with

NAPOLEON THE GREAT

as the Duchess D’Abrantes. Her mother rocked him in his cradle, and when he quitted Brienne and came to Paris, she guided and protected his younger days. Scarcely a day passed without his visiting her house during the period which preceded his departure for Italy as

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Abundant occasion was therefore had for watching the development of the great genius who afterwards became the master of the greater part of Europe.

MARSHAL JUNOT,