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- From: Waleed Iman Khan <raw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2007 18:12:50 GMT
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publicity; she feared, on her own and her son's account, that the tattle
of the world and the newspapers might once more draw down upon her the
distrust and ill-will of the French government. She feared that this
might prevent her returning with her son, through France, to her quiet
retreat on the Lake of Constance, in Switzerland, to her charming
Arenenberg, where she had passed so many delightful and peaceful years
of repose and remembrance.
Hortense was right. Her sojourn in England excited, as soon as it became
known, in every quarter, care, curiosity, and disquiet. All parties were
seeking to divine the duchess's intention in residing in London. All
parties were convinced that she entertained plans that might endanger
and frustrate their own. The Duchess de Berri, who resided in Bath, had
come to London as soon as she heard of the arrival of the Duchess of St.
Leu, in order to inquire into Hortense's real intention. The bold and
enterprising Duchess de Berri was preparing to go to France, in order
to call the people to arms for herself and son, to hurl Louis Philippe
from his usurped throne, and to restore to her son his rightful
inheritance. They, therefore, thought it perfectly natural that Hortense
should entertain similar plans for her son; that she, too, should
purpose the overthrow of the French king in order to place her own son,
or the son of the emperor, the Duke de Reichstadt, on the throne.
On the other hand, it had been endeavored to persuade Prince Leopold, of
Coburg, to whom the powers of Europe had just offered the crown of
Belgium, that the
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