“Qu’il dorme en paix sous cette voute!

C’est un casque bien fait, sans doute,

Pour cette tête de géant.”


[2]. The Prince of Joinville was the third son of Louis Philippe.

JOSEPHINE, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH.

Reproduction of the model of the marble statue exhibited in the Salon of 1857, and executed for the town of St. Pierre (Martinique), the native country of Josephine. This statue as by the sculptor Vital-Dubray. The plaster cast is in the Versailles museum.

Life of Josephine

CHAPTER I
FAMILY—EARLY SURROUNDINGS—EUGENE DE BEAUHARNAIS—MARRIAGE—SEPARATION FROM HER HUSBAND