Recollections of the Last Half Century

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MY INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE NAPOLEON LOUIS. Prince Napoleon Louis was remarkably handsome; somewhat taller than a middle-sized man, he was in shape and gait perfection. An expression of great intelligence and sweetness, a keen look in his eyes mingled with simplicity and kindness that was most fascinating, had made him

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the idol of Florentine society and the pet son of the Comte de St. Leu. His education had been carefully attended to, and his stock of knowledge and proficiency in classics, foreign languages, and in sciences particularly, had brought the most eminent men in Florence to court his acquaintance and friendship. In manly and bodily exercises he had no equal, but in none did he excel so conspicuously as in horsemanship, for which he had an uncontrollable predilection. Determined to the utmost stretch of his powerfulPRINCE NAPOLEON LOUIS. 57 mind, familiar with danger and hardships, strong willed and unchecked by fear, the Prince was a hardy tilter to deal with in matters upon which he had decided to stand or fall. I was aware of his opposition to my views, and I was afraid that the turmoil of the French Revolution would so far excite his vivid imagination as to make my representations of little or no avail. Still, deeply impressed with his father's anxiety about him, I felt it doubly my duty to do all I could to dissuade him from venturing into any rash enterprise. On my being shown into the library, I found the Prince stretched over a large map of Italy, displayed on the carpet, and intent upon measuring the distance between the localities in the Romagna which he considered to be the most appropriate for strategic purposes. Rising on his knees from his recumbent position, the Prince gave me his hand and shook mine in a most cordial way, and begged I would...

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