Queen Victoria and the Bonapartes
Author: Theo Aronson ISBN: 0 304 9387I 8

‘What do you say to wonderful proceedings in Paris, which really seem like a story in a book or a play?’ wrote Queen Victoria to her uncle, King Leopold of Belgians, in December 1851. Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the great Napoleon Bonaparte, had made himself dictator of France, stealing the limelight of the European stage to open the first act of a play that would last for more than thirty years, in which Queen Victoria was herself to play a major role.

Into the Queen’s staid, predictable and circumscribed life, the Second Empire Bonapartes brought beneath another world. Adventurers, parvenus exotics, they radiated an aura of romanticism to which Victoria’s ardent nature was quick to respond.

1972 Hardback 260 pages Good Condition Slight Shelf wear

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