Fontainbleau— Infidelity and Immorality— Francis I. and the "Wise
Fool— Tbe Dying King and the Courtiers— Adventure of Francis
I.— Diana of Poitiers and the Duchess d' Etampes— Catherine
de Medicis— Gabrielle d' Estrees— Henry IV— Louis:XIV— His
Queen and his Mistresses— Vice and Devotion— The Lady Gam-
blers—Madame de Maintenon— The Actress and Her Lover in
Lent— Death of Louis XIV— His Manner of Converting. the
Huguenots— Louis XV— His Marriage with Marie Leczinska—
A Prince and his Tutor — Anecdotes of the Duke of Burgundy —
Pius VII. — Josephine at Fontainbleau — Napoleon and Marisr
Louisa — Napoleon and Pius VII. — " Comedian " — " Tragedian "
— Abdication of Napoleon — Parting of Napoleon with the Im-
perial Guard — The King's Cabinet — Napoleon's Civil Adminis-
tration—His Character — The Conscription — War and its Crimes
aud Miseries — The Passion for War — What a Declaration of
War really is — Review of Bonaparte's Career — The Bourbons —
Louis XVIII. — His Escape from France— He Seeks an Asylum
in England — The Son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette — His /
Imprisonment and Death — Louis XVIII. placed upon the
French Throne by the Allied Powers — His Policy — "Nothing
Learned, Nothing Forgotten" — Reign of Louis XVIII. — His
Death — Charles X. — His Gallantries — Madame Polastron, his
Mistress — Coronation of Charles X. — His Desire to Re-establish
Despotism — His Unpopularity — The Royal Family — The Soli-
tary Hurrah — Prince Polignac — Expedition against Algiers —
Discontent of the People— Character of Charles X. — Another

Revolution — The Pavements of Paris again Bathed with Blood

Infatuation of Charles X. — Queen Hortense — Hor Sons— Louis
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