Excerpt from Memoirs of Queen Hortense, Vol. 2 of 2: Mother of Napoleon IIIWhat! This eccentric woman, this manu facturer of sentiments, dares to compare herself to Josephine I shall not answer her letters.He kept his word, and did not answer. But Madame de Stael did not understand this silence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.