Four Years an Empress: Marie-Louise, Second Wife of NapoleonJ. Murray, 1962 - 304 pages |
Contents
Tortures in dim light | 1 |
An Archduchess emerges from her chrysalis | 4 |
Austerlitz | 13 |
An Empress dies A dangerous one takes her place | 19 |
Wagram | 23 |
An heir But by whom? | 26 |
A solemn vow | 36 |
An ambassador is covered with blood | 37 |
Will the mighty giant accept? | 174 |
4 Rue St Florentin | 177 |
An empty carriage rolls on | 181 |
Poison | 187 |
The Cossacks close in | 190 |
Les adieux de Fontainebleau | 199 |
Vienna Elba | 202 |
Will the sheet hold? | 210 |
Austria über alles | 42 |
A frantic minotaur | 46 |
A thunderbolt | 53 |
A marriage by proxy | 59 |
A wild embrace by an unknown man | 64 |
What an Austrian again? | 73 |
The golden cage | 77 |
Politics journeys and balls | 82 |
The Empress is pregnant | 92 |
Long live the King of Rome | 96 |
The Czar is very tall Napoleon is very small | 104 |
He smiled and she wept | 110 |
MarieLouise indifferent to popularity III | 111 |
The spring | 116 |
Prague | 126 |
The fanatical Slav | 131 |
A madman shakes an empire | 137 |
Spiritual power reigns supreme | 143 |
Regent in name only | 150 |
The tricolor at half mast | 154 |
and the child slept on | 158 |
A little King clings to his Palace | 163 |
Adieu ChampsElysées | 170 |
It is useless to cry little King | 216 |
A mission is accomplished | 230 |
Dread overshadows the world | 235 |
In the garden of the Elysée | 243 |
Adieu mon fils Adieu ma mère | 248 |
My son for a kingdom | 251 |
The fruit of sin | 254 |
Misunderstood | 257 |
The eaglet has become an Austrian eagle | 260 |
Only the elements are left to mourn | 264 |
A heart goes abegging | 267 |
A liaison in the making | 271 |
The death of a mastermind | 274 |
The windows are open The eaglet has taken flight | 279 |
Polite acceptance | 283 |
Eroica | 286 |
A voice | 289 |
Farewell Austria | 292 |
An Archduchess is dying Let us pray | 294 |
Epilogue | 299 |
Bibliography | 300 |
Index | 301 |
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Four Years an Empress: Marie-Louise, Second Wife of Napoleon Agnes Barron Baroness de Stoeckl No preview available - 1962 |