Josephine empress (8 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnUnlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketc.

Leather bound. Zustand: Very good. Second Edition. Octavo, xii, 324pp; vii, 306pp. Three-quarter blue morocco, matching marbled paper boards, edges, and endpapers. Five raised bands, title in gilt over red morocco label. Stated "Second Edition" on title page of each volume. Solid text blocks, rubbing to corners and edges of spine, sunned spines, faint foxing to leaves. A nice set. This set differs from the "Extra-Illustrated" Second Edition of the Memoirs of Empress Josephine, also issued by Henry Colburn in 1829. This set is complete in two-volumes, as compared to three in the "Extra-Illustrated" edition. Second edition of the Memoirs of the Empress Josephine by Madame de Rémusat. (illustrator). …

2¼ pp. on bifolium. 8vo. With stamped bodure and gilt edge. Insistent letter to her niece Stephanie Beauharnais who married the heir of throne Karl of Baden on October, 8th. It seems like for this reason Joséphine feels constrained to remind the young lady of her duties. Joséphine praises her niece's progress in winning "hearts" at the court, especially of Madame margravine. Furthermore Joséphine requests her to make the prince happy, to take care of her health, not to make a detour in life and give birth to a boy in eight month. - The same year in March, Stephanie Beauharnais got adopted by Napoleon: "je m'occupe bien souvent de vous ma chère fille, [.] je vois avec plaisir ma chere Stéphanie, le succès des soins que vous prenés pour gagner les Coeurs et vous concilier tous les suffrages, à la Cour ou vous êtes [.] je suis surtout charmée des progrès que vous avés faits dans l'affection de M[a]d[am]e la margrave. [.] contribuer de tout votre pouvoir au bonheur du prince de Bade, ménagés votre santé, ne faites pas détour de vie et donnés moi dans huit mois un petit fils bien portant [.]". - Tiny hole (without text loss) in fol. 2, two small cuts in former stapling. Wrapping pages slightly discoloured (oxidized?).…

Zustand: Very Good. Uniform matching third edition hard back binding in publisher's original half white vellum covers, black and red title and author lettering to the spines, polished brown marble covers, thick satin white silk end papers, polished red page edges. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 413; 420; 416 printed pages of French text. From the private library of E. Balfour, Balbirny | Balbirnie House, with smart coat of arms bookplate inside each front free end paper, white spines slightly grubby, without any foxing or age toning to the text block and in Very Good condition. Heavy set. Member of the P.B.F.A. FRANCE [Literature & History). …

8vo. 1 p. With address. Double sheet. Joséphine and General Alexandre de Beauharnais, her first husband, were imprisoned in the Carmes prison. The general was guillotined on July 23, 1794. On July 27, Robespierre was overthrown. On August 6, Joséphine was released; she was left a widow with two children, a son, Eugène, and a daughter, Hortense. Burdened with debt but having escaped death in a time of scarcity, Joséphine was in desperate straits."I counted on you all day, citizen, and did not go out so I could receive you. I also gave my word to someone to whom I am in debt, expecting to be able to settle it tomorrow morning. This should tell you enough about how impatiently I am awaiting your kindness in fulfilling the service you offered me.Regarding my bracelets, I have found a good opportunity to part with them. It appears that I will be able to get in cash what they originally cost fifteen years ago. I do not want to miss this chanceit is a Dutch merchant who is leaving very soon. If you could give my servant, the bearer of this letter, one hundred pistoles, you would greatly oblige me.Believe, citizen, in my gratitudeit is as great as my devotion to you."After the execution of her former husband, Joséphine was also arrested and was due to appear before the Revolutionary Tribunal when, on 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794), Robespierre and his regime were overthrown. Thanks to the intervention of Thérésia Cabarrus, later known as "Notre-Dame de Thermidor" and the future wife of Jean Lambert Tallien, whom Joséphine had met in prison, she was freed by Tallien. He also managed to restore to her a small portion of her confiscated property.…