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HORTENSE AND HER CHILDREN.
Conversation with the princes.
Madame Cochelet, the reader of Queen Hortense, writes, in her interesting memoirs: \"I have often seen her take her two boys on her knees, and talk with them in order to form their ideas. It was a curious conversation to listen to, in those days of the splendors of the empire, when those children were the heirs of so many crowns, which the Emperor was distributing to his brothers,
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HORTENSE AND HER CHILDREN.
Conversation with the princes.
Madame Cochelet, the reader of Queen Hortense, writes, in her interesting memoirs: \"I have often seen her take her two boys on her knees, and talk with them in order to form their ideas. It was a curious conversation to listen to, in those days of the splendors of the empire, when those children were the heirs of so many crowns, which the Emperor was distributing to his brothers,
