In her new novel, The Queen’s Fortune, author Allison Pataki delves into a “good royal drama” — one that happened over two centuries ago. Pataki tells the true story of Desiree Clary, a 19th-century ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Desiree D. Napoleon, 40, graduated from the University of St. Joseph. Her journey ...
This impeccably researched, expertly rendered historical from Pataki (The Traitor’s Wife) gloriously recreates the personal dramas surrounding Napoleon Bonaparte. Following the French Revolution, ...
Rien dans ses origines familiales, ou son caractère, ne laissait présager de son incroyable destin. Désirée Clary, benjamine d'une famille de neuf enfants, est née le 8 novembre 1777, à Marseille.
D ÉSI RÉE (594 pp.)—Annemarie Selinko —Morrow ($4.50). It was 1794, and Citizen Robespierre had just set up an altar to human reason in Paris. Little Desiree Clary of Marseille, though only 14, was a ...
Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine ...
Grumpy and childish: Marlon Brando as Napoleon in Désirée (20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock) Jack Nicholson, who paid £250,000 in 1984 for the rights to a film about Napoleon, mused back then about ...
À juger par les références de ce livre, Désirée Clary a déjà été l’objet de toute une littérature. La nouveauté que M. Gabriel Girod de l’Ain lui apporte vient des archives qu’il a eu le privilège de ...
Napoléon a écrit le roman Clisson et Eugénie après un mariage raté. Ce roman parle de cet échec. Il a choisi le nom du Connetable pour nommer un personnage qui parle de lui. Napoléon Bonaparte a ...
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