Hortense

military costume. She was intending to send it as a pleasing memorial to the Emperor in his distant encampment.

Death of Napoleon Charles.

Just then she received the dreadful tidings that little Napoleon Charles had been taken sick with the croup, and, after the illness of but a few hours, had died. It was the 5th of May, 1807. Josephine was in Paris; Hortense at the Hague, in Holland; Napoleon was hundreds of leagues distant in the north,


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military costume. She was intending to send it as a pleasing memorial to the Emperor in his distant encampment.

Death of Napoleon Charles.

Just then she received the dreadful tidings that little Napoleon Charles had been taken sick with the croup, and, after the illness of but a few hours, had died. It was the 5th of May, 1807. Josephine was in Paris; Hortense at the Hague, in Holland; Napoleon was hundreds of leagues distant in the north,


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