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and Interests mo. I have arranged

NAPOLEON'S with him to give you all the proofs

of the attachment which the Em-:

LOVE LIFE peror henps upon my family and

EMPRESS' LETTERS TO HER MOTHER

HAPPY YEARS IN FRANCE

Paris.

the happiness which your daughter enjoys."

The earller letture of the series reveal that the financial worries which benet Josephine induced her to marry Napoleon while he was atil struggling to get ahend.

APPEALS FOR HELP "Frantle appeals for help, for Napolean, conqueror of Europe, money and for fruit to keep herself was an attentive and amiable bus and her children, Eugene and baud, even being willing to have Bortense, allvo lied most of the his mother-in-law and his wife's letters. Ten years before Josepli- relatives live with him, according Ine became empress of the French, to newly-discovered letters from Empress Josephine to her mother she struggled for life. in Marthilquo.

The

struggles are beat related in three These lettera from the beautiful the letters, all addressed to her Creole, Josephine, who was Napo-mother, Mme. Joseph Gaspard leon's first wife, together with Tascher de La Pagerla, at Troin Napoleon's own letters to Mariellets, Martinique. Shedding new Louise, his second wife, are the light on Josephine's stormy life, the galy Napoleana which have come to lettera disclose the real suffering light in recent years.

of a native girl of Martinique, first Mme. Irmine Ramnette, editor of married to an island nobleman who: Le Tresor Des Lettres, which is was guillotined In publishing the Josephine letters, eventually became Empress of 1794. She said she found them in the Nation-Martinique under the Amiens Peace al Library while neeking material for a history of Martinique.

Trenty of 1802, under which Eng- land, having seized the island in 1704, gave it back to France and to Napoleon, who had by then been Josephine were published long ago married for six years to the beaute- and are available in every Napo-ous Creole,

This is the first publication of Josephine's lettera,"

Abo Bald.

"Napoleon's own ketters

leonic History and biography, parti

cularly in the work of Frederick The first letter to. Josephine's Masson, who published them in full mother announced the guillotining late in the 10th Century.

"But these lettera of Josephine

of her husband, Viscount de Beau- barnais. Matlers went from bad

to her mother are new. With to worse with Josephine and then

Napoleon's own unpublished letters to Marie Louise, which are soon to

weeks later she was forced to admit

to her mother in her second letter

be made public, these documents without any expressed sentiment

throw new light on Napoleon's character."

exempt gratitude to the giver-that!

she and the children were able to

опе

The

The letters of Josephile de Bran-exist only by the help of harrais informally describe her Etamery own life in Europe to her mother

de Dunkerque. living in Martinique and throw an future Empress did not seem con- entirely new light on the emperor's įscience-stricken over being support- love life. They depict kim na aed by a strange man, being more husband anxious to please his wife concerned with the fact that the: and to ald her friends and relatives arrangement would be temporary.

FIRST LETTER

In her first letter home, shortly

Nothing in her past life had, in fact, instilled disapproval of that

after her marriage to Napoleon in sort of thing in her,

March 1796, Josephine wrote:

"You mnat Jove Bonaparte.

Mother. He makes your daughter

CHANCE AFFAIR

More than one year later, in 1796,

very happy. He is good and ami-] Josephine casually told her mother able, in every way a charming for the first time that she had

married General Bonaparte, indicat

man."

In a letter a few months later ing that the marriage was not an from Paris she wrote of Napoleon's exceptionally fortunate catch for willingness to have his mother-in-her but that Bonaparte was a very law and her relatives live with charming nan nevertheless and she was sure her mother would like

them.

"Bonaparte and myself have the, him." greatest esire that you come and five with us," she wrote.My In a letter after the restoration-

Uncle must come to France

bring all its children with him, wrote to her mother;,

ander Martinique to France, Josephine

Bonaparte will take charge uf. then

"He (Bonaparte) wants very much

for you to come to France if you

In one of the last letters of the can necustom yourself to live in a collection, four years before Napo- leon divorce her for not bearing climate so different from that. If him children, Josephine wrote: you comply with my desires, you June. You would like Bonaparte munt depart so you can arrive in very much. He is making your daughter very happy, He is good and he is altogether charming, He loves your Yeyetle,"—United Press.

"Dear Mother: 1 am charging my cousin with giving you news. I um gure in advance of the plea sure you will have to learn from him all that concerns the Emperor

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