Ten Years' Exile: Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. — John Shaqi
Ten Years' Exile: Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
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Ten Years' Exile: Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.
Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine)
Authors, French -- 19th century -- Biography; France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815; France -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Intellectuals -- France -- Biography; Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817; Women -- France -- Intellectual life
Chapter 2. Return to Coppet--Different Persecutions.
Chapter 3. Journey in Switzerland with M. de Montmorency
Chapter 4. Exile of M. de Montmorency and Madame Recamier.--New
Persecutions
Chapter 5. Departure from Coppet
Chapter 6. Passage through Austria;--1812
Chapter 7. Residence at Vienna
Chapter 8. Departure from Vienna
Chapter 9. Passage through Poland
Chapter 10. Arrival in Russia
Chapter 11. Kiow
Chapter 12. Road from Kiow to Moscow
Chapter 13. Appearance of the Country--Character of the Russians
Chapter 14. Moscow
Chapter 15. Road from Moscow to Petersburg
Chapter 16. St. Petersburg
Chapter 17. The Imperial Family
Chapter 18. Manners of the great Russian Nobility
Chapter 19. Establishments for Public Education.--Institute of St.
Catherine
Chapter 20. Departure for Sweden.--Passage through Finland
TEN YEARS' EXILE
Part The First
CHAPTER 1.
Causes of Bonaparte's animosity against me.
It is not with the view of occupying the public attention with what
relates to myself, that I have determined to relate the
circumstances of my ten years' exile; the miseries which I have
endured, however bitterly I may have felt them, are so trifling in
the midst of the public calamities of which we are witnesses, that I
should be ashamed to speak of myself if the events which concern me
were not in some degree connected with the great cause of threatened
humanity. The Emperor Napoleon, whose character exhibits itself
entire in every action of his life, has persecuted me with a minute
anxiety, with an ever increasing activity, with an inflexible
rudeness; and my connections with him contributed to make him known
to me, long before Europe had discovered the key of the enigma.
I shall not here enter into a detail of the events that preceded the
appearance of Bonaparte upon the political stage of Europe; if I
accomplish the design I have of writing the life of my father, I
will there relate what I have witnessed of the early part of the
revolution, whose influence has changed the fate of the whole
world. My object at present is only to retrace what relates to
myself in this vast picture; in casting from that narrow point of
view some general surveys over the whole, I flatter myself with
being frequently overlooked, in relating my own history.
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