Recollections of Caulincourt, Duke of Vicenza: In Two Volumes, 第 2 卷H. Colburn, 1838 |
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第253页 - I doubt, that my adversaries would follow this example. 1. Examination of the Proceedings of the Court-martial instituted to try the Duke d'Enghien. 2. A justificatory Memorial published by the Duke de Vicenza. 3. Some Letters published by the Duke de Dalberg, minister from the Court of Baden to the French Government in the year XII. (1804.) 4. An important Note from the Baron de Massias then French Minister at the Court of Baden. 5. Minutes made on the Exhumation of the Duke d'Enghien, in 1816....
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第84页 - But they found no word of sympathy for the frightful misfortune which fell upon the benefactor, the Sovereign, who during twenty years had been the glory of France. " Woe to these ungrateful men ! * " Unable to repress my feelings, I was proceeding to leave the apartment. The noise I made attracted the attention of the Emperor. Our eyes met ; we understood each other : and as I opened the door, he said : — ' Stop, Caulincourt.' He sat down at his desk, and wrote at full length the act of his abdication,...
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