Identifier: napoleonshortbio00john (find matches)
Title: Napoleon, a short biography
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson), 1867-1920
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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point ofview see various works of Fournier and Wertheimer. CHAPTER XIII THE AUSTRIAN MARRIAGE AND THE CAMPAIGN OF RUSSIA Dynastic Question — Napoleon marries Maria Louisa — Jeal-ousy of Russia — Causes for War — Preparations — Cam-paign of Russia—-Borodino — Moscow — The Retreat. HAVING concluded the treaty of Schon-brunn with Austria, Napoleon leftVienna for France, but he returned ina far different mood to that in which he hadreturned from Tilsit in 1807. Then an un-clouded series of successes lay behind him, andbefore him arose great schemes that were tolead to the glorious day when Great Britainshould be at his feet; but now his pre-occupations were on a smaller scale, for thesecurity of his own throne shared his thoughtswith the overthrow of his hated enemy. There were many reasons for the Emperorsdissatisfaction. The defeat of Austria hadproved a harder task than ever before; atEssling th^ Archduke Charles had claimed avictory, at Wagram. he had withdrawn his I/O
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The French Empire after VVagriiin THE AUSTRIAN MARRIAGE 171 army from the field virtually intact. In Spain,too, a British general was proving more thana match for the best marshals of the Empire,while from one end of the Peninsula to theother insurrection blazed, and King Josephcould barely maintain himself at Madrid.Greatest of all his anxieties was the dynasticquestion: whose was to be the reversion ofthe imperial throne ? The idea had long beenworking in his head; the question had nowbecome an acute one; perhaps an incidentthat occurred during his stay at Vienna drovehim finally and reluctantly to an act that hehad first contemplated on his return fromEgypt in 1799. While the peace negotiationswere progressing a German student namedStaps approached the Emperor as he was in-specting the guards in the court of. the palaceof Schonbrunn. His movements were sus-picious; he was arrested and on him was founda knife that could leave no doubt as tohis intentions. Brought before Napoleon hea

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