Excerpt from Godoy: The Queen's Favourite: With Photogravure Frontispiece and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Including Twelve Portraits After Goya This is the story of one of those playthings of for tune oi whom the history of despotic monarchies, and particularly of Spain, has had so much to tell. By his mere charm of manner Godoy, a penniless guardsman, captivated the Queen of Spain; by his gentleness of disposition, by his intelligence, strange to say, by his fidelity, he Secured the unbounded con fidence of the king. No ...
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Excerpt from Godoy: The Queen's Favourite: With Photogravure Frontispiece and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Including Twelve Portraits After Goya This is the story of one of those playthings of for tune oi whom the history of despotic monarchies, and particularly of Spain, has had so much to tell. By his mere charm of manner Godoy, a penniless guardsman, captivated the Queen of Spain; by his gentleness of disposition, by his intelligence, strange to say, by his fidelity, he Secured the unbounded con fidence of the king. No name is more detested by his countrymen than his; no one has been treated more unjustly by his contemporaries and posterity. To him has been ascribed the downfall of his country which he 'fell in trying to avert. The stupid multi tude pulled him down in the very act of saving them from the maws of Napoleon. Not generous enough to admit their error, they have continued to make him their scapegoat. Historians in every land have repeated the lie, and stultify themselves by picturing the awful results of the abandonment of the policy which he had advocated. Godoy was a favourite as such he had few friends. The people and the nobility alike, jealous of his suc cess, pointed sneeringly to the dishonourable circum stances oi his elevation. Godoy obtained his power ignobly, but he used it well. To him, untrained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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