Show I Forcible Matrimony Napoleon forced his marshals and cour I tiers to marry whether they would or not I Marshal Berthier long escaped claiming I he was as good as married to Mme Viscount I Vis-count e noble Italian lady His devotion devo-tion to her was stupendously idiotic I During the campaign in Egypt he set up a tent next his own in which he placed an altar on which he daily burned incense to her picture EL was really anxious to marry her but sLe declined for the odd reason that although she was willing to maintain a questionable connection shu could not afford to disgrace her family by I marrying a lowborn man like Berthier This was hard enough for the marshal to I bear but her inconstancy was marvelous i even for that day and on one occasion I when a more than usual display of her frivolity occurred Berthier rushed off in rage to Napoleon and announced his willingness I wil-lingness to be wed whereupon the emperor em-peror picked out a wife and sent him to I church with her fortwith i |