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Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire

Door Flora Fraser

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#377373-VB50
Titel
Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
Auteur
Fraser, Flora
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : Alfred A. Knopf Publishing Group
Jaar van uitgave
2009
ISBN10
0307265447
ISBN13
9780307265449
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, uncut, 8vo.
Samenvatting
From acclaimed biographer Flora Fraser, the brilliant life of Napoleon's favorite sister. Celebrated for her looks, notorious for her passions, immortalized by Antonio Canova's statue, and always deeply loyal to her brother, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese is a fascinating figure in her own right.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, she was considered by many to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. She shocked the continent with the boldness of her love affairs, her opulent wardrobe and jewels, and, most famously, her decision to pose nearly nude for Canova's sculpture, which has been replicated in countless ways through the years. But just as remarkable as Pauline's private life was her fidelity to the emperor (if not to her husbands). She was present for Napoleon's great victories in ... (Lees verder)Italy, and she was often at Malmaison with her brother and her rival for his loyalty, the empress Josephine. When he was exiled to Elba, Pauline was the only sibling to follow him there, and after the final defeat at Waterloo she begged to be allowed to join him at Saint Helena.

No biographer has gone so deeply into the sources or so closely examined one of the seminal relationships of the man who shaped modern Europe. In Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire, Flora Fraser has cast new light on the Napoleonic era while crafting a dynamic, vivid portrait of a mesmerizing woman.
Pagina's
287
Conditie
Goed — Red permanent market dot on bottom cut.
Prijs
€ 15,00

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