Author: Alan Palmer
Publisher: Constable Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This is a portrait of the Emperor Napoleon's second marriage which provides an account of its political, diplomatic and military implications for France and the newly instituted Austrian Empire as well as the personal and domestic nature of the relationship.
Napoleon & Marie Louise
Author: Alan Palmer
Publisher: Constable Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This is a portrait of the Emperor Napoleon's second marriage which provides an account of its political, diplomatic and military implications for France and the newly instituted Austrian Empire as well as the personal and domestic nature of the relationship.
Publisher: Constable Limited
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This is a portrait of the Emperor Napoleon's second marriage which provides an account of its political, diplomatic and military implications for France and the newly instituted Austrian Empire as well as the personal and domestic nature of the relationship.
The Second Empress
Author: Michelle Moran
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 030795305X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Two women vie to change their destinies after Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte orders marriage to a princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir in this compelling novel from the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Cleopatra’s Daughter. “A fascinating tale that won’t soon be forgotten.”—Times Record News After the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon’s power is absolute. When eighteen-year-old Marie-Louise is told that the emperor has demanded her hand in marriage, her father presents her with a terrible choice: marry the cruel, capricious Napoleon, or refuse and plunge her country into war. To save her father’s throne, Marie-Louise is determined to be a good wife. But at the extravagant French court, she finds many rivals for her new husband’s affection, including Napoleon’s sister Pauline, who is fiercely jealous, utterly uncontrollable, and the only woman as ambitious as the emperor himself. When war once again sweeps the Continent and bloodshed threatens Marie-Louise’s family, the second empress is forced to make choices that will determine her place in history—and change the course of her life.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 030795305X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Two women vie to change their destinies after Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte orders marriage to a princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir in this compelling novel from the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Cleopatra’s Daughter. “A fascinating tale that won’t soon be forgotten.”—Times Record News After the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon’s power is absolute. When eighteen-year-old Marie-Louise is told that the emperor has demanded her hand in marriage, her father presents her with a terrible choice: marry the cruel, capricious Napoleon, or refuse and plunge her country into war. To save her father’s throne, Marie-Louise is determined to be a good wife. But at the extravagant French court, she finds many rivals for her new husband’s affection, including Napoleon’s sister Pauline, who is fiercely jealous, utterly uncontrollable, and the only woman as ambitious as the emperor himself. When war once again sweeps the Continent and bloodshed threatens Marie-Louise’s family, the second empress is forced to make choices that will determine her place in history—and change the course of her life.
Napoleon and Marie Louise
Author: Sophie C. Durand
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337834227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337834227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Napoleon and Marie Louise
Author: Sophie Cohondet Durand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Working with Napoleon
Author: de Claude-François
Publisher: Enigma Books
ISBN: 1936274205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
Napoleon always sells very well. A classic of the genre. Long out of print with a complete index of names.
Publisher: Enigma Books
ISBN: 1936274205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
Napoleon always sells very well. A classic of the genre. Long out of print with a complete index of names.
Napoleon and Marie-Louise, 1810-1814
Author: Sophie Cohondet Durand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Napoleon and Marie-Louise. 1810-1814. A Memoir
Author: Sophie DURAND
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Letters of Napoleon
Author: J. M. Thompson
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1444659758
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
This vintage book comprises a fascinating collection of Bonaparte's letters; selected, translated, and edited by J. M. Thompson. This anthology forms one of the most truthful and interesting collections of historical documents pertaining to the famous French military and political leader - Napoleon Bonaparte. It offers the reader an interesting and unparalleled insight into his mind and personal life in 292 letters. The letters contained herein include: 'The Brothers', 'His Father's Death', 'The Corsican's Patriot', 'History of Corsica', 'Brothers Louis', 'The Young Jacobin', 'Paris in Revolution', 'Heroics', 'Brother's Joseph', 'Paris Life', 'Fatalism', 'Whiff of Grape-Shot', 'First Night', 'Separation', etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this text now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1444659758
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
This vintage book comprises a fascinating collection of Bonaparte's letters; selected, translated, and edited by J. M. Thompson. This anthology forms one of the most truthful and interesting collections of historical documents pertaining to the famous French military and political leader - Napoleon Bonaparte. It offers the reader an interesting and unparalleled insight into his mind and personal life in 292 letters. The letters contained herein include: 'The Brothers', 'His Father's Death', 'The Corsican's Patriot', 'History of Corsica', 'Brothers Louis', 'The Young Jacobin', 'Paris in Revolution', 'Heroics', 'Brother's Joseph', 'Paris Life', 'Fatalism', 'Whiff of Grape-Shot', 'First Night', 'Separation', etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are becoming increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this text now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
Against Marriage
Author: Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, Duchesse de Montpensier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226534936
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
In seventeenth-century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage, or military alliance. Once married, they became legally subservient to their husbands. The duchesse de Montpensier—a first cousin of Louis XIV—was one of very few exceptions, thanks to the vast wealth she inherited from her mother, who died shortly after Montpensier was born. She was also one of the few politically powerful women in France at the time to have been an accomplished writer. In the daring letters presented in this bilingual edition, Montpensier condemns the alliance system of marriage, proposing instead to found a republic that she would govern, "a corner of the world in which . . . women are their own mistresses," and where marriage and even courtship would be outlawed. Her pastoral utopia would provide medical care and vocational training for the poor, and all the homes would have libraries and studies, so that each woman would have a "room of her own" in which to write books. Joan DeJean's lively introduction and accessible translation of Montpensier's letters—four previously unpublished—allow us unprecedented access to the courageous voice of this extraordinary woman.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226534936
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
In seventeenth-century France, aristocratic women were valued by their families as commodities to be married off in exchange for money, social advantage, or military alliance. Once married, they became legally subservient to their husbands. The duchesse de Montpensier—a first cousin of Louis XIV—was one of very few exceptions, thanks to the vast wealth she inherited from her mother, who died shortly after Montpensier was born. She was also one of the few politically powerful women in France at the time to have been an accomplished writer. In the daring letters presented in this bilingual edition, Montpensier condemns the alliance system of marriage, proposing instead to found a republic that she would govern, "a corner of the world in which . . . women are their own mistresses," and where marriage and even courtship would be outlawed. Her pastoral utopia would provide medical care and vocational training for the poor, and all the homes would have libraries and studies, so that each woman would have a "room of her own" in which to write books. Joan DeJean's lively introduction and accessible translation of Montpensier's letters—four previously unpublished—allow us unprecedented access to the courageous voice of this extraordinary woman.