of the ladies who were with her, she never failed to send a 
special messenger with the information, pointing out the places 
where such occurred; she seemed thus to be continually study- 
ing for opportunities of manifesting kind and delicate attention 
f her household. Here she secured a universality 
been rarely attained. On 
f the court were laid 
aside, while all the joyous 
familiarity which prev 
Josephine was admired, pas 
by many celebrated personage 
her first love, to M. de Caulaincour 
Hence, Bonaparte, speaking of his love 
of France,” says: “Josephine, you do not know how much 
I love you, for you alone do I owe the only moments of happi- 
ness that I have ever tasted in this world; you are grace per- 
sonified, because everything that you do is peculiar grace an 
delicacy. I have never seen you act inelegantly during the 
whole time that we have lived together. You have grace even 
en se couchant. My sweet Josephine, you are really an amiable 
woman, being elegant, charming, and affable. You, the 
goddess of the toilet, you with whom all the fashions of Paris 
originate, who look so magnificent in everything that you wear, 
are so kind, so humane—the best woman in os, Spa 
The Angel of France, during her childhood in Martinique, 
always spoke to the slaves in kindness, becoming a universa 
favorite with all upon the plantations. Having no playmates 
but the little Negroes, she united with them in all their sports, 
while these little ebon children of bondage evidently looke 
ior being, a goddess of the wilder- 
hom they circled in 
upon Josephine as a super! 
ness; she was really the queen around w 4 
the instinctive faculty, which 
of winning the most ardent 
affectionate homage. Thus, 
Josephine displayed through life, arde 
love of all who met her, protected from any undue familiarity, 
she seems to have possessed even at that early day, whereupon, 
the children who were her companions tn all the sports of 
childhood, were also dutiful subjects every ready to be obedient 
to her will. Moreover, concerning the plantation virtue o 
this great woman, let us say that the little Negroes looked 
upon her as a protectress whom they loved, one to whom 
they owed their entire homage. She would frequently collect 
a group of them under the shade of the luxuriant trees of the 
tropical island, teach them the dances that she had learned, also 
join with them as a partner. Here she loved to assemble them 
dies that pene- 
around herself, listen to the sim le Negro melo 
oe eat “ * music, while all their 
trated every heart that felt the power 0 
voices, in sweet harmony, blended with hers as she taught 
them the more scientific songs of Europe. She would listen 
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