Napoleonic general or red hog

Usage examples of duroc.

Bonaparte wished to give his stepdaughter to Duroc, and his brothers were eager to promote the marriage, because they wished to separate Josephine from Hortense, for whom Bonaparte felt the tenderest affection.

Louis, Hortense cherished an attachment for Duroc, who was at that time a handsome man about thirty, and a great favourite of Bonaparte.

However, the indifference with which Duroc regarded the marriage of Louis Bonaparte sufficiently proves that the regard with which be had inspired Hortense was not very ardently returned.

But Duroc looked forward to something better, and his ordinary prudence forsook him at a moment when he might easily have beheld a perspective calculated to gratify even a more towering ambition than his.

During this assault Duroc, who was in the trench, was wounded in the right thigh by the a splinter from a shell fired against the fortifications.

While we were at the Luxembourg Bonaparte despatched Duroc on a special mission to the King of Prussia.

He selected Duroc because be was a man of good education and agreeable manners, and one who could express himself with elegance and reserve, qualities not often met with at that period.

To the right of this again was a little closet where Duroc sat, through which we could communicate with the clerk of the office and the grand apartments of tile Court.

He shall despatch all the business which maybe referred to him, either from Citizen Duroc, or from the cabinet of the First Consul, taking care to arrange everything so as to secure secrecy.

I wish to know the names of those I examined, and I have desired Duroc to report them to me.

Court of Vienna disavowed them, and Duroc, whom Bonaparte sent to convey the preliminaries to Vienna for the Imperial ratification, was not permitted to pass the Austrian advance poets.

The First Consul knew it, just as he well knew that Hortense had a great inclination for Duroc, who did not fully return it.

I have rightly given Caroline to Murat, and Pauline to Leclerc, and I can well give Hortense to Duroc, who is a fine fellow.

The First Consul had sent a brevet of general of division to Duroc by a special courier, who went to Holland, through which the newly-made general had to pass on his return from St.

The First Consul probably paid this compliment to Duroc in the belief that the marriage would take place.