CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

1807

THE COURT AT FONTAINEBLEAU

Talleyrand Appointed Vice-Grand-Électeur--Fête of the Emperor--Marriage of Jérôme and Catherine--Return of Louis and Hortense--New Quarrels--Louis Departs Alone for Holland--Napoleon’s Power--The Court Goes to Fontainebleau--Napoleon at Thirty-eight--The Emperor’s Program of Entertainment--Life of Joséphine--Ennui of the Emperor and His Guests--The Gazzani Affair--Jérôme’s Flirtation with Stéphanie--Illness of Hortense--She Refuses Any Reconciliation with Louis 237