Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
The Westminster Review
Author: American Quarterly Review
Author: Robert WalshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Rose of Martinique
Author: Andrea StuartPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555847420
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The acclaimed biography of Josephine Bonaparte, the Caribbean-born Creole who became the first wife of Napoleon and Empress of France. One of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family’s sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole—sensuality, vivacity, and willfulness. Rescued from near starvation, she grew to epitomize the wild decadence of post-revolutionary Paris. It was there that Josephine first caught the eye of Napoleon Bonaparte. A true partner to Napoleon, she was equal parts political adviser, hostess par excellence, confidante, and passionate lover. Josephine managed to be in the forefront of every important episode of her era’s turbulent history: from the rise of the West Indian slave plantations that bankrolled Europe’s rapid economic development, to the decaying of the ancien régime, to the French Revolution itself, from which she barely escaped the guillotine. Using diaries and letters, Andrea Stuart brings her so utterly to life that we finally understand why Napoleon’s last word before dying was the name he had given her: Josephine. “A comprehensive and truly empathetic biography. Andrea Stuart, who was raised in the Caribbean, combines scholarly distance with a genuine attempt to understand her heroine.” —The Washington Post
The Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: Josephine
Author: Andrea StuartPublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447204735
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
‘It’s a story worthy of a blockbuster novel, and it’s all true. Oodles of sex, passion, adultery, media hype, decadence, plots, murder, mayhem, anguish and betrayal fill these pages . . . an enjoyable, well-researched book; I didn’t want to reach the end’ Edwina Currie, New Statesman Books of the Year One of the most potent icons of female sexuality, Josephine has largely been reduced to an empty cipher, wife to her more famous husband and the butt of one of the oldest jokes around. Yet as Andrea Stuart shows, the girl who grew up on the beautiful island of Martinique endured Caribbean slave revolts, an arranged marriage, and the threat of the guillotine before she even met the man who made her Empress of France. In the grip of turbulent times, Josephine used her intelligence and her allure to forge her way in a Paris that raged and fought and danced its way through revolution and empire. This is the thrilling story of her strength, survival and ultimate transformation.
THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. VOL. X. APRIL 1828 - JANUARY 1829. NO. XIX, NO. XX.
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Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
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Author: L. NolteA-E
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Memoires D'outre-tombe
Author: F.A.R. ChateaubriandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description