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Description:Excerpt from The Napoleonic Exiles in America: A Study in American Diplomatic History, 1815 1819 Paris, boasted of his military exploits under the Great Em porer, and sponged a living from his mother's narrow means. Work as a civilian the soldier would not, nor would he serve a foreign power, for a Frenchman was too proud of his own to lead any foreign columns; besides, Napoleon might come back again. Bridau is, of course, but an individual created in fiction to impersonate an historical type. What to do with the imperial officers was a problem which the idea of Champ d'asile was designed to solve. Balzac laid bare the sordid motives which aimed at the removal from Paris of the remnant of the Old Guard. It was a gigantic fraud, he said, in which those who paraded a sym pathy for the devoted followers of the prisoner of Saint Helena and embezzled the funds raised in behalf of the old soldiers, joined hands with the partisans of the restored Bourbons in sending away the glorious remnant of the French Army. According to the novelist, the idea of the Occupation of Texas by the soldiers of the Imperial army was no doubt a splendid one, but it was the men who were found wanting rather than the conditions, since Texas is now (1843) a republican state of great promise. The ex periment made under the Restoration proved emphatically that the interests of the Liberals were purely selfish and in no sense national, aiming at power and nothing else. Nei ther the material, the place, the idea, nor the good-will was lacking, only the money and the support of that hypocriti cal (liberal) party. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Napoleonic Exiles in America: A Study in American Diplomatic History, 1815 1819 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Napoleonic Exiles in America: A Study in American Diplomatic History, 1815 1819 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Napoleonic Exiles in America: A Study in American Diplomatic History, 1815 1819 Paris, boasted of his military exploits under the Great Em porer, and sponged a living from his mother's narrow means. Work as a civilian the soldier would not, nor would he serve a foreign power, for a Frenchman was too proud of his own to lead any foreign columns; besides, Napoleon might come back again. Bridau is, of course, but an individual created in fiction to impersonate an historical type. What to do with the imperial officers was a problem which the idea of Champ d'asile was designed to solve. Balzac laid bare the sordid motives which aimed at the removal from Paris of the remnant of the Old Guard. It was a gigantic fraud, he said, in which those who paraded a sym pathy for the devoted followers of the prisoner of Saint Helena and embezzled the funds raised in behalf of the old soldiers, joined hands with the partisans of the restored Bourbons in sending away the glorious remnant of the French Army. According to the novelist, the idea of the Occupation of Texas by the soldiers of the Imperial army was no doubt a splendid one, but it was the men who were found wanting rather than the conditions, since Texas is now (1843) a republican state of great promise. The ex periment made under the Restoration proved emphatically that the interests of the Liberals were purely selfish and in no sense national, aiming at power and nothing else. Nei ther the material, the place, the idea, nor the good-will was lacking, only the money and the support of that hypocriti cal (liberal) party. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Napoleonic Exiles in America: A Study in American Diplomatic History, 1815 1819 (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The Napoleonic Exiles in America: A Study in American Diplomatic History, 1815 1819 (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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