The Glory of the Eag

He watched, unmoved, as tens of thousands of soldiers from all corners of France, resplendent in their fine uniforms, fought to the death for him. In his twenty years of military service, he had long since become accustomed to conquest and glory, to danger and death; such scenes no longer stirred him.,From then on, until Napoleon died alone on the island in 1821, there was no more meeting between father and son, husband and wife.,As if in answer to her prayer, the child slowly opened her eyes, gazing at her mother with a bewildered look in her deep blue eyes.。