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ISBN10: 1541063651
ISBN13: 9781541063655
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 12 2016
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: French
ISBN13: 9781541063655
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 12 2016
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: French
... Aux Tuileries, la bataille de Borny avait arrêté un jour le découragement; la bataille de Rezonville l'avait ramené. C'avait été alors la désespérance morne, implacable, sans lueur. L'Impératrice, toujours imposante d'attitude et imperturbable de courage, assistait dans une atonie stoïque à l'effondrement de son pays, de sa dynastie. Elle décidait la princesse Clotilde à envoyer ses enfants à Prangins, et elle-même, n'ayant point la moindre illusion, disait que ce qu'elle désirait par-dessus tout pour son fils, c'était une vie heureuse et sans ambition. Nul ne *a quittait sans être ému de son calme héroïque et sans avoir peine à ne pas pleurer. Elle est admirable, écrivait Mérimée, et me fait l'effet d'une sainte...
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