JULES

b. 1764, d. 18%4, who became 1859. | eventually King of Sweden, was the son t the/of a French lawyer, and had received a sentt.| com pete ini fiee Neome mewolen esult. | from a private in arinics 1881 | to be Marshal of France and Minister of came! War. His chivalrous conduct in the ficid ynean | had gained him much admiration, and in ch to} 1810 he was invited to become Crown > the | Prince of Sweden and heir to the aged and childle Charles XIU, whom he succeeded 1 oils}in 1818. His duty to Sweden made him of a| oppose Napoleon in the great campaign rated | which ended at Leipzig ia 1815. ‘it is|b ee i ing des ta ra pa v Switzerland proce Pennine Alps to t sea- | Aosta in Piedmont, ata height of 8,200 fect 1 by/|above the sea. Here is the celebrated t bas/ hospice of St. Bernard, inhabited by a trope | dozen young and strong monks who take bout} turns in going out every morning with dozs to seek for travellers. that} [s. 69]