Pauline Bonaparte and Her Lovers: As Revealed by Contemporary Witnesses by Her Own Love-Letters and by the Anti-Napoleonic Pamphleteers (Classic Reprint)
Pauline Bonaparte and Her Lovers: As Revealed by Contemporary Witnesses by Her Own Love-Letters and by the Anti-Napoleonic Pamphleteers (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Pauline Bonaparte and Her Lovers: As Revealed by Contemporary Witnesses by Her Own Love-Letters and by the Anti-Napoleonic Pamphleteers The eldest is sixteen this is Elisa, who is going to be Princess Of Lucca and Piombino, and Grand-duchess Of Tuscany. At present she is looking after the poverty-stricken house keeping, and the education of her youngest sister, little Caroline, nine years Old and destined to wear the crown Of Naples. Between no. 1 and no. 3 comes no. 2, Paulette, that is Pauline, making the ...
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Excerpt from Pauline Bonaparte and Her Lovers: As Revealed by Contemporary Witnesses by Her Own Love-Letters and by the Anti-Napoleonic Pamphleteers The eldest is sixteen this is Elisa, who is going to be Princess Of Lucca and Piombino, and Grand-duchess Of Tuscany. At present she is looking after the poverty-stricken house keeping, and the education of her youngest sister, little Caroline, nine years Old and destined to wear the crown Of Naples. Between no. 1 and no. 3 comes no. 2, Paulette, that is Pauline, making the most of a butterfly existence, with all the happy-go-lucky zest Of thoughtless thirteen. Overshadowing all Of them looms the Roman figure Of their mother, overworn with cares, a prey to anxiety day by day and hour by hour on the defensive against the insidious assaults of want. And there, in the distance, hard by beleaguered Toulon, stands the figure of the second brother, Napoleon, beginning his career. But the whole process is a painful one. What can Joseph do for the family? A little assist ance at Odd intervals, and that with difficulty. Lucien, too To meet his bill at the inn he will find himself obliged to marry the daughter. 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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