Douglas Johnson

There shone one woman

issue 19 February 2005

  • Madame de Sta

    Maria Fairweather

    Constable & Robinson, pp. 522

In January 1798 Talleyrand gave a magnificent ball designed to honour Josephine, who had married Bona- parte two years earlier. Everyone who mattered in Paris was there, whether old nobility or former terrorists. Bonaparte was well pleased with the evening, when he was suddenly cornered by Madame de Sta

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