France -- Court and courtiers; France -- History -- Louis XV, 1715-1774
The romantic and eventful period beginning with Josephine’s marriage,
comprises the astonishing Italian campaign, the Egyptian expedition,
the _coup d’état_ of Brumaire, and is described in the first of
the above volumes; while the second treats of the brilliant society
which issued from the chaos of the Revolution, and over which Madame
Bonaparte presided so charmingly; and the third, of the events between
the assumption of the imperial title by Napoleon and the end of 1807,
including, of course, the Austerlitz campaign.
_FOUR VOLUMES ON THE EMPRESS MARIE LOUISE._
_Each with Portrait, $1.25. Price per set, in box, cloth, $5.00; half
calf, $10.00._
THE HAPPY DAYS OF MARIE LOUISE.
MARIE LOUISE AND THE DECADENCE OF THE EMPIRE.
MARIE LOUISE AND THE INVASION OF 1814.
MARIE LOUISE, THE RETURN FROM ELBA, AND THE HUNDRED DAYS.
The auspicious marriage of the Archduchess Marie Louise to the master
of Europe; the Russian invasion, with its disastrous conclusion a few
years later; the Dresden and Leipsic campaign; the invasion of France
by the Allies, and the marvellous military strategy of Napoleon in
1814, ending only with his defeat and exile to Elba; his life in his
little principality; his romantic escape and dramatic return to France;
the preparations of the Hundred Days; Waterloo and the definitive
restoration of Louis XVIII. closing the era begun in 1789, with “The
End of the Old Régime,”--are the subjects of the four volumes grouped
around the personality of Marie Louise.
_TWO VOLUMES ON THE DUCHESS OF ANGOULÊME._
_Each with Portrait, $1.25. Price per set, in box, cloth, $2.50; half
calf, $5.00._
THE YOUTH OF THE DUCHESS OF ANGOULÊME.
THE DUCHESS OF ANGOULÊME AND THE TWO RESTORATIONS.
The period covered in this first of these volumes begins with the life
of the daughter of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette imprisoned in the
Temple after the execution of her parents, and ends with the accession
of Louis XVIII. after the abdication of Napoleon at Fontainebleau.
The first Restoration, its illusions, the characters of Louis XVIII.,
of his brother, afterwards Charles X., of the Dukes of Angoulême and
Berry, sons of the latter, the life of the Court, the feeling of the
city, Napoleon’s sudden return from Elba, the Hundred Days from the
Royalist side, the second Restoration, and the vengeance taken by the
new government on the Imperialists, form the subject-matter of the
second volume.
_THREE VOLUMES ON THE DUCHESS OF BERRY._
_Each with Portrait, $1.25. Price per set, in box, cloth, $3.75; half
calf, $7.50._
THE DUCHESS OF BERRY AND THE COURT OF LOUIS XVIII.
THE DUCHESS OF BERRY AND THE COURT OF CHARLES X.
THE DUCHESS OF BERRY AND THE REVOLUTION OF JULY, 1830.
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