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Thornton Hall. Love affairs of the Courts of Europe
Love affairs of the Courts of Europe
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
A COMEDY QUEEN
CHAPTER II
THE "BONNIE PRINCE'S" BRIDE
CHAPTER III
THE PEASANT AND THE EMPRESS
CHAPTER IV
A CROWN THAT FAILED
CHAPTER V
A QUEEN OF HEARTS
CHAPTER VI
THE REGENT'S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER VII
A PRINCESS OF MYSTERY
COUNT GREGORY ORLOFF
CHAPTER VIII
THE KING AND THE "LITTLE DOVE"
CHAPTER IX
THE ROMANCE OF THE BEAUTIFUL SWEDE
CHAPTER X
THE SISTER OF AN EMPEROR
DESIREE CLARY
CHAPTER XI
A SIREN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER XII
THE CORSICAN AND THE CREOLE
JOSEPHINE DE BEAUHARNAIS
CHAPTER XIII
THE ENSLAVER OF A KING
LOLA MONTEZ, COUNTESS OF LANDSFELD
LUDWIG I., KING OF BAVARIA. CHAPTER XIV
AN EMPRESS AND HER FAVOURITES
CATHERINE THE SECOND OF RUSSIA
CHAPTER XV
A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CINDERELLA
CHAPTER XVI
BIANCA, GRAND DUCHESS OF TUSCANY
BIANCA CAPELLO BONAVENTURI
FRANCESCO I., GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY. CHAPTER XVII
RICHELIEU, THE ROUÉ
CHAPTER XVIII
THE INDISCRETIONS OF A PRINCESS
CAROLINE OF BRUNSWICK, WIFE OF GEORGE IV
CHAPTER XIX
THE INDISCRETIONS OF A PRINCESS—continued
CHAPTER XX
THE LOVE-AFFAIRS OF A REGENT
CHAPTER XXI
A DELILAH OF THE COURT OF FRANCE
CHAPTER XXII
THE "SUN-KING" AND THE WIDOW
CHAPTER XXIII
A THRONED BARBARIAN
CHAPTER XXIV
A FRIEND OF MARIE ANTOINETTE
CHAPTER XXV
THE RIVAL SISTERS
CHAPTER XXVI
THE RIVAL SISTERS—continued
CHAPTER XXVII
A MISTRESS OF INTRIGUE
CHAPTER XXVIII
AN ILL-FATED MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XXIX
AN ILL-FATED MARRIAGE—continued
INDEX
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Thornton Hall
Published by Good Press, 2019
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That she was now middle-aged, stout and dowdy—"like a cook with pretty hands," as Stendhal said of her—mattered nothing to her admirers, many of whom remembered her in the days of her lovely youth. She was, in their eyes, as much a Queen as if she wore a crown; and, moreover, she was a woman of magnetic charm and clever brain.
And thus, with her books and her salon and her cavalier, she spent the rest of her chequered life until the end came one day in 1824; and her last resting-place was, as she wished it to be, by the side of her beloved Alfieri. In the Church of Santa Croce, in Florence, midway between the tombs of Michael Angelo and Machiavelli, the two lovers sleep together their last sleep, beneath a beautiful monument fashioned by Canova's hands—Louise, wife of the "Bonnie Prince" (as we still choose to remember him) and Vittorio Alfieri, to whom, to quote his own words, "she was beyond all things beloved."
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