The Princess Mathilde Bonaparte (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Princess Mathilde Bonaparte Mathilde - Loetitia - Wilhelmine Bonaparte was undoubtedly one of those women who owe much to their possession of personal beauty. It will be abundantly evident in the course of this book that she had many other gifts for which to thank Nature - more fortunate in this respect than her aunt Pauline, "la belle des belles, " who had little else than loveliness to commend her. But without her looks, we may well imagine, the other gifts of the Princess Mathilde would have failed to win for her the place which she occupies in nineteenth-century French history. By their fascination she turned her friends into adorers and made of her home a Court which revolutions were powerless to destroy. No apology, therefore, is needful if we begin her story with a few of the tributes paid to her beauty by those who had the pleasure of gazing on it in its perfection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.