Excerpt from The Romance of a Favourite Never perhaps have the two contrasted, yet sister, literary forms - history and the novel - been so happily blended in a theme susceptible of a treatment both documentary and romantic as in the life of the famous but little-known Madame de Castiglione. Surnamed the Divine because of her superhuman loveliness, Madame de Castiglione began her strange and radiant career of conquest as the secret emissary of Italy at the Court of the Tuileries; she speedily became the alleged favourite ...
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Excerpt from The Romance of a Favourite Never perhaps have the two contrasted, yet sister, literary forms - history and the novel - been so happily blended in a theme susceptible of a treatment both documentary and romantic as in the life of the famous but little-known Madame de Castiglione. Surnamed the Divine because of her superhuman loveliness, Madame de Castiglione began her strange and radiant career of conquest as the secret emissary of Italy at the Court of the Tuileries; she speedily became the alleged favourite of Napoleon III.; she was, later on, the friend and counsellor of the princes of the House of Orleans; and she ended her days alone, far from the madding crowd, aweary of the world and of everything in it. 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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