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Cargando... Napoleon and Marie Louise (2001)por Mr. Alan Palmer
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 4020. Napoleon & Marie Louise: The Emperor's Second Wife, by Alan Palmer (read 8 May 2005) I read Alan Palmer's excellent biography of Metternich with much enjoyment on 4 June 1974, so I am a bit surprised that I have not read anything else by him till now. This is a 2001 book (though our library did not acquire it till last year) and is very well done, though, having read three full biographies of Napoleon (John Holland Rose's on 24 Aug 1957, Alan Schom's on 15 May 1998, and Frank McLynn's on 24 Nov 2002), some was not new to me. Marie Louise was the eldest child of the son of Emperor Leopold II, having been born 12 Dec 1791, and married Napoleon by proxy on 11 March 1810, and first saw him some weeks later. Her son, Napoleon II, was born 11 March 1811. She did not join Napoleon in either of his exiles and she married twice after his death. This was a fun book to read. If this was an attempt to place Marie Louise in a better light than history has hereto placed her, it failed miserably. The only thing that it shows she was clever about was hiding her illegitimate children, & her second & third marriages from her family. Neither does it dispel the low opinions of her treatment & utter isolation of he eldest child, the King of Rome. The old theory “out of sight, out of mind” in regards to her relationship to Bonaparte, sure rings true from the pages. After Bonaparte’s exile, it seems that Marie Louise’s only concern was her possession of Parma & her illicit affair with Neipperg. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
This is a portrait of the Emperor Napoleon's second marriage which provides an account of its political, diplomatic and military implications for France and the newly instituted Austrian Empire as well as the personal and domestic nature of the relationship. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Is birth-order part of the difference? Marie Antoinette was "the last of the litter," while Marie Louise was the oldest, and most responsible, in her family. She was Emperor Francis' favorite child, and their relationship was important personally and politically. It seems that upbringing is important, even in royal families.
Alan Palmer has written a sympathetic, understanding portrait that combines history and biography in a balanced account. He is a amused, and an amusing, storyteller. He is neither a strong Bonapartist nor a fierce anti-Bonapartist, which is a admirable thing indeed. ( )