-Marie Louise in a letter to her mother before she learned of her betrothal to Napoleon.
Hopkins, Tighe.Women Napoleon Loved. Eveleigh Nash, 1910.
Second wife of Napoleon, Marie-Louise the girl-bride bore the son L'Aiglon who would bear three titles: King of Rome, Napoleon II, and Duke of Reichstadt. This painting by Max Gallo is taken from Robert Laffont's L'album de Empereur, 1997.
Napoleon and Marie-Louise enter the Tuileries in Paris on the day of their wedding, 1 April 1810. Painting by Etienne-Barthelemy Garnier. Chateau de Versailles, France (Bridgeman Art Library). Napoleon on Napoleon, An Autobiography of the emperor was edited by Somerset de Chair in 1992.
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