Napoleon's love child: A biography of Count Leon - Hardcover
- PublisherKimber
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0718303334
- ISBN 13 9780718303334
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages270
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Count Leon: Napoleon's Love Child
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Ex-library with usual stamps. Dust jacket with protective plastic cover. Weak spine on inside cover but book intact. Count Leon was Napoleon's illegitimate child but struggled for acceptance after his father's exile and death as the Bonapartes shunned him. Scandal-ridden life in London thereafter. Plates. 270 pages. Quoted postage for UK 2nd class. Overseas at least £11.65 due to size. Seller Inventory # 4684
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. 270 pp, dustjacket with long tears and some loss. B + w photographs. Flyleaf removed, otherwise internally clean and VG. The fascinating biography of Napoleon's love child. Seller Inventory # 847
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. 270pp. Signed by the author to ffep without dedication. VG book in good slightly edgeworn jacket, now preserved in mylar jacket protector. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001696
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Minor shelfwear at points on unclipped jacket, now protected in removable plastic. Content is clear on clean, sound pages. TS. Used. Seller Inventory # 606928
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Wear and tear to D/J. Foreword by Count Gaston Leon of Le Raincy. 'I have a son', Napoleon is reputed to have shouted triumphantly when vrough the news of the birth to Eleonore Denuelle, his mistress, of the boy who was to become Count Leon. The importance of his birth was immense, for it proved to Napoleon that he was capable of fathering children, and paved the way to his divorcing the Empress Josephine and marrying Marie Louise. But this importance was short-lived. Thrust into the background, poorly provided for during Napoleon's exile and after his death. Count Leon had to live by his wits, and to try and win recognition from the Bonapartes against their cold-shouldering. Soon he was the centre of scandals in London and Paris. He suffered from the fluctuating fortunes of the Bonapartes, while receiving little attention, or money, from them. With enthusiasm he threw himself into prohects and schemes, most of which came to nothing. Flung into prison for debt, arrested on Wimbledon Common where he had challenged the future Napoleon III to a duel, his was a life of adventure, with his Bonaparte charm and gift of gaining affectionshining through his colourful and tempestuous career. The author has spent many years in research in England and France, and has received the help of Count Leon's descendants. Illustrated. 270 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Seller Inventory # 093984
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 24cm. VG h/c in like art DJ with few chips, tears and creases. Marginal browning to endpapers. 270 pages, 24 b/w illustrations, plan, family tree Napoleon's first born, Count Leon, was to lead a tempestous and adventurous life, largely ignored by French nobility after his father's death. Forward by his granson, Count Gaston Leon. Seller Inventory # 001231
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Book Description Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO60077809: 1974. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 270 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc hors texte. Jaquette déchirée. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. Seller Inventory # RO60077809
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