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Excerpt from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Vol. 8: With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution
Char. Lxxviil. - Fears of the Parisians. - Proceedings of Napoleon. - Operations of the French Cavalry in rear of the Allies - Capture of Weissemberg. - The Emperor Francis is nearly surprised - Napoleon reaches Troyes on the night of the 29th March -opinion of Macdonald as to the possibility of relieving Paris. - Napoleon leaves Troyes, on the 3oth, and meets Belliard, a few miles from Paris, in full retreat. - Conversation betwixt them. He determines to proceed to Paris, but is at length dis suaded - and despatches Caulaincourt to receive terms from the Allied Sovereigns - He himself returns to Fontainbleau. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.