iii. 71, 124, 126, 144, 150;

friendship for _N._, ii. 332; admits England to Leghorn, iii. 68; supposed poisoning of her daughter-in-law, 124; examines Ferdinand's papers, 126; her son reveals her shame, 126; suspected of intrigue in Spain, 128; panic-stricken at the French invasion, 133; advocates the scheme of monarchy in America, 134; repents her abdication, 137, 138; _N.'s_ attitude toward, 140; virtual prisoner in the Escorial, 142; summoned to Bayonne, 145.

=Louisiana=, ceded to France, ii. 204, 272; collapse of French rule in, 238; expedition to, 272; Spain's exasperation over loss of, 289; _N.'s_ dream of empire in, 289; sold by France to the United States, 289, 332; iv. 300.

=Louvain=, Gneisenau opens fresh communications via, iv. 185; possible retreat of the Prussians via, 194.

=Louverture, Toussaint=, defense of San Domingo, ii. 237; organizes a consular government, 237; capture and death of, 237.

=Louvre, the=, _N.'s_ second marriage in, iii. 259-261.

=Love=, _N._ on, i. 77.

=Low Countries=. _See_ =Austrian Netherlands=; =Batavian Republic=; =Belgium=; =Dutch Flanders=; =Holland=; =Netherlands=.

=Lowe, Sir Hudson=, allegations about _N.'s_ physical ailments, iv. 168; character, 230; his custody of _N._, 230-233; _N.'s_ disputes with, 288.

=Luebeck=, proposal to give it to Prussia, ii. 400; surrender of, 437; sack of, 440; Bernadotte's force in, iii. 202; extension of the French Empire, to, 278.

=Luc=, _N._ at, iv. 139.

=Lucca=, given to Pauline (Buonaparte) Borghese, ii. 354, 356; given to Elisa, 395; creation of hereditary duchy of, 396.

=Lucca and Piombino=, Prince of. _See_ =Bacciocchi, F. P.=

=Lucca and Piombino=, Princess of. _See_ =Buonaparte, Marie-Anne-Elisa=.

=Luckau=, defeat of Oudinot at, iv. 8.

=Ludmannsdorf=, Archduke Charles's force at, iii. 206.

=Luneville=, negotiations between Cobenzl and Joseph Bonaparte at,