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Madame Bonaparte declines the First Consul’s invitation to take up her residence at the Tuileries—Extraordinary secrecy which she maintains in regard to her investments—Her parsimony—She goes to live with Joseph Fesch in the Rue du Mont-Blanc—Her relations with Joséphine—Stormy scene between her and her daughter-in-law, at the Tuileries, on the occasion of the first disgrace of Lucien—Her letter to Lucien—Her protection of Corsicans—She views with strong disapproval the marriage of Louis with Hortense de Beauharnais—Élisa in Paris—Her occupations—She takes charge of Lucien’s children after the death of their mother—Her literary and artistic pretensions—Sensation aroused at the wedding-dinner of Junot and Laure Permon by her appearance in the costume of a ladies’ literary society which she has just founded—Her mortification at the disgrace of Lucien—Nature of her intimacy with the poet Fontanes—Her letters to her brother during his residence at Madrid—She goes to the Pyrenees in search of a “cure”—Prosper de Barante’s account of his meeting with her at Carcassonne—She plays in tragedy with Lucien at Plessis-Chamant and Malmaison.
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Madame Bonaparte declines the First Consul’s invitation to take up her residence at the Tuileries—Extraordinary secrecy which she maintains in regard to her investments—Her parsimony—She goes to live with Joseph Fesch in the Rue du Mont-Blanc—Her relations with Joséphine—Stormy scene between her and her daughter-in-law, at the Tuileries, on the occasion of the first disgrace of Lucien—Her letter to Lucien—Her protection of Corsicans—She views with strong disapproval the marriage of Louis with Hortense de Beauharnais—Élisa in Paris—Her occupations—She takes charge of Lucien’s children after the death of their mother—Her literary and artistic pretensions—Sensation aroused at the wedding-dinner of Junot and Laure Permon by her appearance in the costume of a ladies’ literary society which she has just founded—Her mortification at the disgrace of Lucien—Nature of her intimacy with the poet Fontanes—Her letters to her brother during his residence at Madrid—She goes to the Pyrenees in search of a “cure”—Prosper de Barante’s account of his meeting with her at Carcassonne—She plays in tragedy with Lucien at Plessis-Chamant and Malmaison.
ABSTRACT
When, on February 19, 1800, Napoleon took up his residence at the Tuileries, he pressed his mother to join him there, and offered to place a handsome suite of apartments at her disposal. Madame Bonaparte however declined, preferring to remain in her old quarters in the Rue du Rocher, with Joseph and his worthy Julie, to whom she was sincerely attached. At the Tuileries, she felt, it would be 251difficult for her to avoid more or less frequent intercourse with Joséphine, while the luxury and splendour of that ancient home of kings accorded but ill with her simple tastes.
