After Waterloo: Reminiscences Of European Travel 1815-1819, By Major W. E Frye













































































































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together to the Theatre della Pergola, and on their entering into the Grand
Ducal box, the Grand Duke - Page 269
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They Went Together To The Theatre Della Pergola, And On Their Entering Into The Grand Ducal Box, The Grand Duke Was Hailed With Cries Of Viva Il Nostro Sovrano:

Now this proof of attachment at a period when Buonaparte was all-mighty in Italy, when the Grand Duke

Was but an inferior personage, at a time too when it was doubtful whether or not he would be dethroned, and in the very presence of the mighty conqueror, reflects great honor and credit on the Tuscan character. Buonaparte was much struck at this proof of disinterested attachment on the part of the Florentines towards their Sovereign, and told the Grand Duke very ingenuously that he had received orders to revolutionize the country, from the French Directory; but that as he perceived the people were so happy, and the Prince so beloved, he could not and would not attempt to make any change.

The applause given to the Grand Duke at this critical period is so much the more creditable to the Florentines as they in general receive their Prince, on his presenting himself at the theatre, with no other ceremonial than rising once and bowing. There is no fulsome God save the King repeated even to nausea, as at the English theatres. In fact none of the Italians pay that servile adulation to their Sovereigns that the French and English do.

The changes projected in Italy at the treaty of Luneville by Napoleon then first Consul, and his further views on Italy, induced him at length to eject an Austrian Prince from the sovereignty of a country which he intended to annex to the French Empire.

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