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The plan of this work is to present in one view the passage of French society from the
confusion into which it was thrown by the Revolution, to a regular and normal situation,
under the dictatorship of Napoleon. The various periods treated of, are illustrated by
their remarkable women—the Reign of Terror by its heroines—the Directory by its celebrated
beauties—the Consulate and Empire by the wits and belles of the Imperial Era.

(1) Charlotte Corday.
(2) Madame Roland.
(3) Madame Tallien.
(4) Madame Récamier, whose love was
sought by Napoleon and Lucien Bonaparte,
Bernadotte, Murat, Junot,
the Montmorencies (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.”
(5) Pauline Bonaparte, the most beautiful
princess in Europe, and whose fantastic
and uncontrollable caprices gave
her brother constant annoyance.
(6) Caroline Bonaparte, wife of Murat
and Queen of Naples.
(7) Josephine,}
the two Empresses.
(8) Marie Louise,} the two Empresses.
(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 du Colombier, Napoleon's first
love, with whom he used to eat cherries
at six in the morning.
(12) Madame Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely,
a peerless beauty, one of whose
replies to Napoleon has become historical.
Napoleon said to her at a
ball, “Do you know, Madame Regnault,
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.
(13) Madame Junot, 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, refused
Napoleon himself. The first
daughter, Josephine Junot, was Napoleon'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 credence
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
protégée of Napoleon.

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