NAPOLEON AS A MATCH-MAKER.
Mme. Vincent, a prolific writer on historical themes, has recently completed a sketch of Napoleon Bonaparte's match-making proclivities.
According to her researches, it would seem that Napoleon was the greatest matchmaker that ever lived. After repeated refusals, the doughty little soldier himself finally won the hand of Josephine, and devoted his matrimonial instincts to tbe affairs of others.
No excuse was admitted from a bachelor. To officers who pleaded that they might be killed in battle he answered, The more reason for haste.' Those who urged that they could not find a. wife, 'Be that my care,'-he said, and the same evening the affair would be arranged. The poor received dowries and trousseaux.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 6 February 1899, Page 6
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