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The most Authentic and Entertaining Life of Napoleon.

Memoirs of Napoleon,
HIS COURT AND FAMILY.

BY THE DUCHESS D'ABRANTES, (Madame Junot.)

Two Volumes, 8vo. 1134 pages. Price $4.

List of Steel Engrabings contained in this Illustrated Edition.

NAPOLEON.

JOSEPHINE.

MARIA LOUISA,

DUKE OF REICHSTADT,

MADAME LAETITIA BONAPARTE, ELIZA BONAPARTE,

CHARLES BONAPARTE,

LUCIEN BONAPARTE,

MARSHAL JUNOT,

CHARLES BONAPARTE,

PAULINE BONAPARTE,

JEROME BONAPARTE,

LOUIS BONAPARTE,

CARDINAL FESCH,

LOUISA, QUEEN OF PRUSSIA,

JOSEPH BONAPARTE.

Probably no writer has had the same opportunities
for becoming acquainted with

NAPOLEON THE GREAT

as the Duchess D'Abrantes. Her mother
rocked him in his cradle, and when he
quitted Brienne and came to Paris, she guided
and protected his younger days. Scarcely
a day passed without his visiting her house
during the period which preceded his departure
for Italy as

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.

Abundant occasion was therefore had for
watching the development of the great genius
who afterwards became the master of the
greater part of Europe.

MARSHAL JUNOT,

who became allied to the author of this work
by marriage, was the intimate friend of Napoleon,
and figured in most of the

BRILLIANT ENGAGEMENTS

which rendered him the greatest military
captain of the age. No interruption took
place in the intimacy which she enjoyed, so
that in all these scenes, embracing a period
of nearly

THIRTY YEARS,

the Duchess became familiar with all the
secret springs of

NAPOLEON'S ACTIONS,

either through her husband or by her own
personal knowledge and observation at the
Court of Napoleon.

JOSEPHINE,

whose life and character so peculiarly attract
the attention of all readers, occupies a great
part of the first volume. The character and
the deeds of

THE EMPERORS AND KINGS,
THE GREAT MEN OF THE DAY,
THE MARSHALS OF THE EMPIRE,
THE DISTINGUISHED LADIES OF
THE COURT,

are described with minuteness, which personal
observation only admits of. The work
is written in that

FAMILIAR GOSSIPING STYLE,

and so interspersed with anecdotes that the
reader never wearies. She has put every
thing in her book—great events and small.

BATTLES AND BALLS,
COURT INTRIGUES AND BOUDOIR
GOSSIP,
TREATIES AND FLIRTATIONS,

making two of the most charming volumes
of memoirs, which will interest the reader
in spite of himself.

Opinions of the Press.

—London Literary Gazette.

—London Quarterly Review.

—Life Illustrated.