1st Edition

Revival: The Women Bonapartes vol. I (1908) The Mother and Three Sisters of Napoleon I

By Hugh Noel Williams Copyright 2017
    434 Pages
    by Routledge

    434 Pages
    by Routledge

    It will therefore, I think be admitted that the present volumes, in which I have endeavoured to give a full and unprejudiced history of the Women Bonapartes, call for no apology; and I may even venture to believe that, whatever their shortcomings, they will be welcomed by the English and American public as an attempt to fill a place in our Napoleonic literature which has been long vacant.

    Chapter I

    Letizia Ramolino

    Chapter II

    Birth and infancy of Napoleon

    Chapter III

    Exigencies of Carlo Bonaparte

    Chapter IV

    Poverty of the Bonapartes at this period

    Chapter V

    Marianna and Admiral Truguet

    Chapter VI

    Early days of the Bonaparte family in France

    Chapter VII

    Madame Bonaparte and her daughters return to Marseilles

    Chapter VIII

    Pauline and Freron

    Chapter IX

    Elisa and Felix Baciocchi

    Chapter X

    Dispersal of the Bonaparte family

    Chapter XI

    Madam Bonaparte accompanied by Louis arrive in Paris

    Chapter XII

    The Bonapartes after Brumaire

    Chapter XIII

    Madame Bonaparte declines the First Consul's invitation to take up her residence at the Tuileries

    Chapter XIV

    Pauline and Leclerc

    Chapter XV

    Elisa purchases the Hotel Maurepas

    Chapter XVI

    Pauline after her return from St. Domingo

    Chapter XVII

    Proclamation of the Empire

     

    Biography

    Williams, Hugh Noel