Series I
(For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages 267-269.)
| LETTER | PAGE | |
| No. 1. | Bayonne | 267 |
| No. 2. | A country-house | 267 |
| Everything is still most primitive | 267 | |
| No. 3. | Prince of the Asturias | 268 |
| The Queen | 268 | |
| No. 4. | A son has been born | 268 |
| Arrive on the 27th | 269 |
Letters of the Emperor Napoleon to the Empress Josephine During the Stay That He Made at Bayonne, 1808
“This year offers a strange picture. The Emperor Napoleon was at Venice in the month of January, surrounded by the homage of all the courts and princes of Italy; in the month of April he was at Bayonne, surrounded by that of Spain, and the great personages of that country; and, finally, in the month of October he is at Erfurth, with his parterre of kings.”
—Mémoires du Duc de Rovigo.
January 27th.—Queen and Prince Regent of Portugal reach Rio de Janeiro.
February 2nd.—French troops enter Rome.
February 17th.—French occupy Pampeluna, and
February 29th.—Barcelona.
March 19th.—Charles IV. abdicates, and his son proclaimed Ferdinand VII.
March 20th.—Godoy imprisoned by Ferdinand.
March 23rd.—Murat enters Madrid.
March 27th.—Napoleon excommunicated.
April 15th.—Napoleon arrives at Bayonne.