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Women of the Second Empire : chronicles of the court of Napoleon III
Femmes du second Empire. English
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- Creator
- compiled from unpublished documents by Frédéric Loliée ; translated by Alice M. Ivimy ; with an introduction by Richard Whiteing
- Other Title
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- Women of the Second Empire and the court of Napoleon III
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- English
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- London ; New York " : John Lane, 1907
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- xxxi, 371 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00394550
- "And fifty-one portraits, three in photogravure."
- Includes index.
- An imperial Pompadour : The Countess de Castiglione -- A Bonaparte : Madame de Rute -- Princess Mathilde and her friends -- A golden-haired ambassadress : Countess Le Hon -- Pleasure's amabassadress : Pauline de Metternich Sandor -- The salons of a minister of state : Countess Walewska -- The empress's circle -- The three sisters La Rochelambert -- A marshal's daughter : Sophie de Castellane, countess de Beaulaincourt -- A worldly life : Mélanie de Bussière, countess de Pourtalès -- A forgotten few