Murat

1910 · 34882 — New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1910. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with full-page gravures and photographic plates.<br> Royal 8vo publisher's original royal blue cloth the spine lettered and ruled in gilt the upper cover lettered in gilt and with double gilt fillet rules at the borders enclosing elaborate filigree gilt-work surrounding an oval pictorial coat-of-arms in colours surrounded by gilt filigree matching the borders top edge gilt. xiv 344 pp. A fine copy very well preserved bright and clean the binding strong and tight the gilt-work bright the text-block clean. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY HANDSOMELY PRESENTED AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Princess Caroline Murat great-niece of Napoleon Bonaparte and grand-daughter of the King of Naples was born on 31 December 1832 at Bordentown New Jersey U.S.A. She married Charles Martin de Chassiron on 6 January 1850 at Paris France and then John-Lewis Garden in 1872 at London England. Reminiscences of the Second Empire by a member of the Imperial family who lived and moved among the activities and gaieties of the Court of Napoleon III and who enjoyed unexampled opportunities of observation at first hand. An intriguing story born in the United States due to the exile of her family by the Emperor the family returned to France when the ban was lifted by Louis Phiippe. The book presents recollections of an early life in America the return to France the Revolution of 1848 the coup d'état the restoration of the empire the court of the Second Empire the Franco-Prussian war exile in England and the death of Napoleon III and the succession of royalty.<br> G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover