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" The Mott Superbly Illustrated Boole ever Produced in Jtmtrtcti." 



THE COURT OF NAPOLEON; 



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Stottetg tmtor % Jfirsi (Emgiu. 



WITH SIXTEEN PORTRAITS OF ITS BEAUTIES, WITS, AND HEROINES. 



BY FRANK B. GOODRICH (Dick Tinto). 

 Royal Quarto. Turkey Antique, f 12 60. 





 brated beauties the CONSULATE and EMPIRE by the wits and belles of the Imperial Era. 



(1) CHARLOTTE CORDAY. 



(2) MADAME ROLAND. 

 (8) MADAME TALLIES. 



(1) MADAME RECAMIER, whose love was 

 sought by Napoleon and Lucien Bo- 

 naparte, Bernadotte, Murat, Junot, 

 the Montmorencles (father and son), 

 Augustus, Prince of Prussia, and Lord 

 Wellington, and " whose beauty threw 

 at her feet every man who had once 

 looked upon her." 



(6) PAULINE BONAPARTE, the most beautiful 

 princess in Europe, and whose fantas- 

 tic and uncontrollable caprices gave 

 her brother constant annoyance. 



(6) CAROLINE BONAPARTE, wife of Murat 

 and Queen of Naples. 



(12) MADAME REGNAULT DE ST. JEAN D'AN- 

 GELY, a peerless beauty, one of whose 

 replies to Napoleon has become his- 

 torical. Napoleon said to her at a 

 ball, "Do you know, Madame Reg- 

 nault, that you are looking much 

 older ?" She answered at once, and in 

 the hearing of an hundred ladies and 

 gentlemen, "The observation which 

 you have done me the honor to make, 

 sire, might possibly have given me 

 pain, had I arrived at a period when 

 youth is regretted. " She was twenty- 

 eight years old. 



(18) MADAME JONOT, DUCHESS D'ABRANTES. 

 This lady refused Napoleon's brother 

 In marriage ; her brother would not 

 accept Napoleon's sister, Pauline, and 

 her mother, Madame de Permon, re- 

 fused Napoleon himself. The first 

 daughter, Josephine Junot, was Na- 

 poleon's first god-child. 



(14) MADAME DE STAEL, the first literary 



woman of the age. 



(15) M'LLE LENORMAND, the sibyl of the 19th 



century, and the intimate confidant 

 of Josephine ; of whom it was said 

 that "she contrived to obtain cre- 

 dence in an age which neither believed 

 in God and his angels, nor the devil 

 and his imps." 



(16) M'LLE GEORGES, the tragic actress and 



protegee of Napoleon. 



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The Illustrations, from original portraits in the galleries of the Luxembourg and Ver- 

 BaUlS, sixteen In number, are executed by M. Jules Champagne, the most celebrated 

 artiat, in bis line, In Paris. 



(9) HORTENSE DE BEAUHARNAis, daughter 

 of Josephine and mother of Louis 

 Napoleon and the Count de Morny. 



(10) GRACE INGERSOLL, the Belle of New 



Haven, transferred by marriage to 

 France, and subsequently one of the 

 beauties who frequented the Court of 

 the Tuileries. 



(11) M'LLE DC COLOMBIEH, Napoleon's first 



love, with whom he used to eat cher- 

 ries at six in the morning. 



