Identifier: lifeofnapoleonbo00tarb (find matches)
Title: A life of Napoleon Boneparte:
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Josephine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763-1814
Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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have realized at least forty millions offrancs. Before the conclusion of a year, the events of Eu-rope would have drawn to him a hundred millions of francsand sixty thousand individuals, most of them possessingwealth, talent, and information. America (he said) was, in all respects, our proper asylum. It isan immense continent, possessing the advantage of a peculiar systemof freedom. If a man is troubled with melancholy, he may get intoa coach and drive a thousand leagues, enjoying all the way the pleas-ures of a common traveller. In America you may be on a footing ofequality with everyone; you may, if you please, mingle with the RULER OF THE ISLAND OF ELBA 277 crowd without inconvenience, retaining your own manners, your ownlanguage, your own religion. On June 29th, a week after his return to Paris fromWaterloo, Napoleon left Malmaison for Rochefort, hopingto reach a vessel which would carry him to the UnitedStates; but the coast was so guarded by the English thatthere was no escape.
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278 CHAPTER XXII napoleons surrender to ENGLAND SENT TO ST. HELENA LIFE IN EXILE DEATH OF NAPOLEON WHEN it became evident that it was impossible toescape to the United States, Napoleon consid-ered two courses—to call upon the country andrenew the conflict, or seek an asylum in England. Theformer was not only to perpetuate the foreign war, it wasto plunge France into civil war; for a large part of thecountry had come to the conclusion of the allies—that aslong as Napoleon was at large, peace was impossible.Rather than involve France in such a disaster, the emperorresolved at last to give himself up to the English, and sentthe following note to the regent: Royal Highness : Exposed to the factions which divide mycountry and to the hostility of the greatest powers of Europe, I haveclosed my political career. I have come, like Themistocles to seekthe hospitality of the British nation. I place myself under the pro-tection of their laws, which I claim from your Royal Highness as themost

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