She therefore returned herself to
Paris, to bring back Eugene and Hortense to Josephine; and this
journey, so short and so insignificant in itself, was nevertheless
the occasion that the Princess von Hohenzollern remained in France;
that her brother, the Prince von Salm, should mount the scaffold!
The favorable moment for emigration was lost through this delay; the
journey to Paris had attracted the eyes of the authorities to the
doings of the princess and of her brother, the contemplated journey
to England was discovered, and the incarceration of the Prince von
Salm and of his sister was the natural consequence. A few months
after, the prince paid with his life the contemplated attempt to
migrate; his sister, the Princess von Hohenzollern, was saved from
the guillotine through accident.
Meanwhile, Josephine had at least her children safely returned, and,
in the quietude and solitude of Fontainebleau, she awaited with
beating heart the future developments of events; she saw increase
every day the dangers which threatened her, her family, and, above
all things, her husband.
Mayence was still besieged by the Austrian and Prussian forces.
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