Alarmed at her husband's return, she now hurried to meet him, but missed him on the way; while he, finding his home at Paris empty, raged at her infidelity, refused to see her on her return, and declared he would divorce her.

From this he was turned by the prayers of Eugene and Hortense Beauharnais, and the tears of Josephine herself.

A reconciliation took place; but there was no reunion of hearts, and Mme.

Reinhard echoed the feeling of respectable society when she wrote that he should have divorced her outright.

Thenceforth he lived for Glory alone.
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