1st Edition

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

By Hugh Noel Williams Copyright 2017
    508 Pages
    by Routledge

    504 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 XVIII

    Pauline in Rome

    Chapter XIX

    Pretensions of Letizia and her daughters

    Chapter XX

    Caroline's skilful tactics secure for Murat the Duchies of Berg and Cleves

    Chapter XXI

    Elisa and Lucca Pauline during the winter of 1806-7

    Chapter XXIII

    Murat, disappointed in his hopes of the Crown of Poland returns to Paris

    Chapter XXIV

    Grief of Madame Mere at the rupture between the Emperor and Pius VII

    Chapter XXV

    Annexation of the kingdom of Etruria

    Chapter XXVI

    Enviable position of Pauline

    Chapter XXVII

    Arrival of Murat at Naples

    Chapter XXVIII

    The hopes built by Madame Mere on the divorce remarriage of the Emperor disappointed

    Chapter XXIX

    Mortification to which Murat is subjected by the Emperor

    Chapter XXX

    Madame Mere visits the King and Queen of Westphalia at Napoleonshohe

    Chapter XXXI

    Caroline appointed Regent of Naples during the absence of Murat in Russia

    Chapter XXXII

    France invaded

    Chapter XXXII

    Madame decides to join the Emperor in Elba, and embarks at Leghorn on board the British corvette Grasshopper

    Chapter XXXIV

    Position of Murat and Caroline after the fall of the Empire

    Chapter XXXV

    Italy, after the second abdication of Napoleon, becomes the refuge of the Bonapartes

    Chapter XXXVI

    Caroline in Austria

    Biography

    Williams, Hugh Noel