Excerpt from The Life of Napoleon BonaparteThe King of kings hung a dark cloud over his star of destiny, when the cruel blow fell on the exiled Wife, whose only crime was that heaven had written her to him childless. That cloud expanded till it darkened all the sky and bolt after bolt came down upon his lofty brow, and laid it low on a captive's pillow within the confines of a rocky island, Where, Prometheus-like, he was compelled to feel the wasting power of burning memories and awakened conscience, until death removed him to a more righteous adjudication.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.