The morally difficult question of elite adultery among world leaders propelled Hector Fleischmann to gather the available evidence in the case of Napol�on III, last Emperor of France. One of his early mistresses helped to fund his second coup d' � tat attempt. Another has the record for most known photographic portraits in the 19th century, done on her commission. Bastards were the result of some of the adulteries, and Napol�on took care of them, though not publicly. His wife, Empress Eug�nie, was extremely ...
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The morally difficult question of elite adultery among world leaders propelled Hector Fleischmann to gather the available evidence in the case of Napol�on III, last Emperor of France. One of his early mistresses helped to fund his second coup d' � tat attempt. Another has the record for most known photographic portraits in the 19th century, done on her commission. Bastards were the result of some of the adulteries, and Napol�on took care of them, though not publicly. His wife, Empress Eug�nie, was extremely opposed to such conduct, if she knew. Contents include the youth of Louis-Napol�on Bonaparte, his career as a conspirator against the entire Restoration regime of France as the backdrop to his affair with Mrs Gordon; assignations during his period of imprisonment at the Fortress of Ham; another English mistress in Miss Howard; his preference for non-French mistresses, namely Mme de Castiglione and Marie-Anne Walewska; his last true favorite, the French Julie Leboeuf, known as Marguerite Bellanger; elucidation on alleged mistress of the Emperor; his rewards for the husbands of his elite mistresses; his bastards.
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