Letitia’s youngest daughter, the beautiful but frail Pauline, Duchess of Guastalla, married first to General Leclerc, and then to Prince Camille Borglle, was at Nice when her brother abdicated in 1814.  She retired with her mother to Rome, and in October 1814 went to Elba, staying there till Napoleon left, except when she was sent to Naples with a message of forgiveness for Murat There was a characteristic scene between her and Colonel Campbell when the English Commissioner arrived to find Napoleon gone.  Pauline professed ignorance till the last of her brother’s intentions, and pressed the Colonel’s hand to her heart that he might feel how agitated she was.  “She did not appear to be so,” says the battered old Colonel, who seems to have been proof against her charms.  She then went to Rome, and later to Pisa.  Her health was failing, and, unable to join her brother in France, she sent him her only means of assistance, her jewels, which were captured at Waterloo.  Her offer to go to St. Helena, repeated several times, was never accepted by Napoleon.  She died in 1825 at Florence, from consumption, reconciled to her husband, from whom she had been separated since 1807.  She was buried at Sta Maria Maggiore, Rome.

Elisa, the eldest sister of Napoleon, the former Grand Duchess of Tuscany, which Duchy she had ruled well, being a woman of considerable talent, was the first of all to die.  In 1814 she had been forced to fly from her Government, and, accompanied by her husband, she had attempted to reach France.  Finding herself cut off by the Austrians; she took shelter with Augereau’s army, and then returned to Italy.  She took the title of Comtesse de Campignana, and retired to Trieste, near which town, at the Chateau of Sant Andrea, under a wearisome surveillance, she expired in 1820, watched by her husband, Felix Baeciocchi, and her sister Caroline.  Her monument is in the Bacciocchi Chapel in San Petronio, Bologna.

Caroline, the wife of Murat, was the only one of the family untrue to Napoleon.  Very ambitious, and forgetting how completely she owed her Kingdom of Naples to her brother, she had urged Murat in 1814 to separate from Napoleon, and, still worse, to attack Eugene, who held the north of Italy against the Austrians.  She relied on the formal treaty with Austria that Murat should retain his Kingdom of Naples, and she may also have trusted to the good offices of her former admirer Metternich.  When the Congress of Vienna met, the French Minister, Talleyrand, at once began to press for the removal of Murat.  A trifling treaty was not considered an obstacle to the Heaven-sent deliverers of Europe, and Murat, believing his fate sealed, hearing of Napoleon’s landing, and urged on by a misleading letter from Joseph Bonaparte, at once marched to attack the Austrians.  He was easily routed by the Austrians under Neipperg, the future husband of Maria Louisa.  Murat fled to France, and Caroline first took refuge in an English