# The Court of the Empress Josephine

Author: Imbert de Saint-Amand, 1834-1900; Perry, Thomas Sergeant, 1845-1928 [Translator]

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9831

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Court+of+the+Empress+Josephine+Imbert+de+Saint-Amand&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

"Two-thirds of my life is passed, why should I so distress myself about what remains? The most brilliant fortune does not deserve all the trouble I take, the pettiness I detect in myself, or the humiliations and shame I endure; thirty years will destroy those giants of power which can be seen only by raising the head; we shall disappear, I who am so petty, and those whom I regard so eagerly, from whom I expected all my greatness. The most desirable of all blessings is repose, seclusion, a little spot we can call our own." When La Bruyere expressed himself so bitterly, when he spoke of the court "which satisfies no one," but "prevents one from being satisfied anywhere else," of the court,...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-court-of-the-empress-josephine-9831/chapters/20/index.md)