War And Peace: Book 9 - CHAPTER II

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ON THE 28TH of May Napoleon left Dresden, where he had been spending three

weeks surrounded by a court that included princes, dukes, kings, and even one

emperor. Before his departure, Napoleon took a gracious leave of the princes,

kings, and emperor deserving of his favour, and sternly upbraided the kings and

princes with whom he was displeased. He made a present of his own diamonds and

pearls— those, that is, that he had taken from other kings—to the Empress of

Austria. He tenderly embraced the Empress Marie Louise—who considered herself

his wife, though he had another wife still living in Paris— and left her, so his

historian relates, deeply distressed and hardly able to support the separation.

Although diplomatists still firmly believed in the possibility of peace, and

were zealously working with that object, although the Emperor Napoleon, with his

own hand, wrote a letter to the Emperor Alexander calling him “Monsieur mon

frère,” and assuring him with sincerity that he had no desire of war, and

would always love and honour him, he set off to join the army, and at every

station gave fresh commands, hastening the progress of his army from west to

east. He drove a travelling carriage, drawn by six horses and surrounded by

pages, adjutants, and an armed escort, along the route by Posen, Thorn, Danzig,

and K

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4. War And Peace: Book 2 - CHAPTER II
5. War And Peace: Book 2 - CHAPTER I
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8. War And Peace: Book 3 - CHAPTER XVI
9. War And Peace: Book 3 - CHAPTER XV
10. War And Peace: Book 3 - CHAPTER XIV
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13. War And Peace: Book 2 - CHAPTER XIX
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