2012, ISBN: 123641229X

[EAN: 9781236412294], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing … Plus…

[EAN: 9781236412294], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Language: English Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: . not endure it. Louis resigned the throne of Holland, and Lucien sought in England that freedom, for the loss of which all the grandeur and power of the brother, whom his presence of mind had seated on the Consular Throne, could afford no compensation. -Lnd rtsii With such powers to support his authority, and such terrors to obrtifnrc 10 overawe discontent or stifle resistance, Napoleon succeeded, without ri i the least difficulty, in maintaining a despotism in France, during the whole remainder of the empire, unparalleled for rigour and severity in modern times. Not a whisper of resistance was any where heard to his orders throughout all his vast dominions. The Senate joyfully and servilely registered his decrees, voted his taxes, and authorized his conscriptions; the press was occupied only with narrating his journeys, transcribing his eulogies, or enforcing his orders; the Chamber of Deputies vied with their dignified brethren in the upper Chamber in addressing the Emperor only with the incense of Eastern adulation. The Legislature voted, and the nation furnished to their ruler, during the ten years which elapsed from his assuming the Imperial throne to his abdication, the stupendous number of Two MilLions Three Hundred TnousAND Conscripts, of which above two millions two hundred thousand perished in his service (2). The taxes, enormously heavy, were only prevented from being screwed up to the highest possible amount by the systematic plunder of all the tributary countries of Europe. Yet his government was not only obeyed without a murmur during all that time, but (I) De Start. Dix Ans d Exil. 219, 229. Id. Iter. Franc, ii. I m Madame dc Start has loft a graphic picture of the terrors with which the jealousy of Napoleon was attended even.<

2012, ISBN: 123641229X

[EAN: 9781236412294], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers … Plus…

[EAN: 9781236412294], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: . not endure it. Louis resigned the throne of Holland, and Lucien sought in England that freedom, for the loss of which all the grandeur and power of the brother, whom his presence of mind had seated on the Consular Throne, could afford no compensation. -Lnd rtsii With such powers to support his authority, and such terrors to obrtifnrc 10 overawe discontent or stifle resistance, Napoleon succeeded, without ri i the least difficulty, in maintaining a despotism in France, during the whole remainder of the empire, unparalleled for rigour and severity in modern times. Not a whisper of resistance was any where heard to his orders throughout all his vast dominions. The Senate joyfully and servilely registered his decrees, voted his taxes, and authorized his conscriptions; the press was occupied only with narrating his journeys, transcribing his eulogies, or enforcing his orders; the Chamber of Deputies vied with their dignified brethren in the upper Chamber in addressing the Emperor only with the incense of Eastern adulation. The Legislature voted, and the nation furnished to their ruler, during the ten years which elapsed from his assuming the Imperial throne to his abdication, the stupendous number of Two MilLions Three Hundred TnousAND Conscripts, of which above two millions two hundred thousand perished in his service (2). The taxes, enormously heavy, were only prevented from being screwed up to the highest possible amount by the systematic plunder of all the tributary countries of Europe. Yet his government was not only obeyed without a murmur during all that time, but (I) De Start. Dix Ans d Exil. 219, 229. Id. Iter. Franc, ii. I m Madame dc Start has loft a graphic picture of the terrors with which the jealousy of Napoleon was attended even.<