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...PEACE WITH NAPOLEON!-General de Caulaincourt-Morrow...
...four o'clock in the afternoon of April 4, 1814, Armand de Caulaincourt, Napoleon's dour, devoted Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived at Essonnes, on the road to Paris. He carried the Emperor's abdication in favor of his son, and instructions for a project so audacious it had a good chance of succeeding. The Allied Armies had taken Paris four days prior. Headed by Talleyrand, a movement for the restoration of the Bourbons was gaining strength. Only Napoleon could visualize a plan of action in this "hour of his vast reverses." The situation...
...queerly. An emissary from the Allied field headquarters nearby had arrived at the same moment. Puzzled Caulaincourt ran down to the courtyard to see about getting through the Allied lines, found when he returned that Ragusa was involved in mysterious negotiations with the enemy. But Ragusa was one of Napoleon's most trusted officers. "No one," the Emperor said, "inspires me with more confidence." Worried, Caulaincourt hustled Ragusa into a carriage and carried him on to Paris. The emissaries stopped at Allied field headquarters on the way. There Ragusa raced to the Allied commander alone, conferred secretly, then smugly...
...long-lost memoirs,* Caulaincourt cleared up a major Napoleonic mystery with his account of Ragusa's treachery, clarified another with his account of Napoleon's attempted suicide a week later. Last year the first volume of this extraordinary document was offered U. S. readers under the title With Napoleon in Russia. Last week the second and concluding volume retraced the stages of the Emperor's decline to the time of his departure for Elba. Together the two books constitute an amazing picture of the smashing of a world power, the first volume more readable as a connected...
...this point Napoleon invades Italy, and Anthony is packed off to Havana to wind up his grandfather's business. He discovers affairs in such a mess that he must go to Africa and trade in slaves in order to collect the Bonnyfeather debts. Several long, embittering years pass before Anthony can return to Europe. In the meanwhile old Bonnyfeather has died, and Napoleon has taken Anthony's wife as his mistress. Desepite attempts on his life by the Marquis, Anthony reaches Paris and discovers that he has a son. The movie ends as Anthony...