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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: turned round, saluted with grace, and his father lifted him in his arms. When he came to see the Emperor, he would run into the apartment in a way that left Madame de Montesquiou far behind. He would say to the cabinet usher: Open the door for me, I want to see papa. The usher would reply: Sire, I cannot open it. But I am the little King. No, Sire, I will not open it. While this was going on, his governess would arrive, and proud then of her protection, he would say: Open, the little King desires it. Madame de Montesquiou had made the child end his morning and evening prayers with these words: My God, inspire papa to make peace for the welfare of France. One day when the Emperor was present at his son's bedtime, he made the same prayer. The Emperor embraced him, said nothing, but smiled in a manner full of kindliness as he looked at Madame de Montesquiou. The Emperor would say to the King of Rome when he had frightened him by his noise and his grimaces: How's this! how's this ! a king ought not to be afraid. I remember another anecdote concerning the Emperor's young son, which was told me by His Majesty himself one evening, when I was undressing him as usual. The Emperor laughed heartily over it. You would never guess, said he to me, the singular recompense that my son has requested from his governess for having been very good. He wanted VOL. III. ?B her to let him go and dabble in the mud! The thing was true, and it seems to me to prove that the grandeurs with which the cradles of princes are surrounded is not sufficient to destroy the strange oddity often found in the caprices of children. CHAPTER XXII The Abb6 Geofiroy receives a thrashing ? The Emperor's remark concerning it ? M. Corvisart ? His frankness ? He insists on his orders ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217018364
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 70
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021701836X
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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