Buy this book on-line HOLT, EDGAR: : Plon-Plon - THE LIFE OF PRINCE NAPOLEON (1822-1891)LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1973. ISBN 0718111087.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj.
Pictorial colour dw/dj with minimal shelf- wear to edges and light bumping,creasing to head+foot of spine/backstrip.Both inner
flaps of dw/dj lightly foxed/spotted.All corners slightly bumped.Top edge lightly dust-soiled with fore-edges lightly foxed.
Contents bright,tight and clean.Maroon paper-covered boards with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white
endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,326pp includes 2 genealogical tables - Prince Jerome and Bonapartes,12pp contemporary b/w illus/photographs,notes,12pp select bibliography and an index.
'The most brilliant failure of the century.' This was the Annual Register's description at his death of Prince Napoleon (1822-1891),nephew of Napoleon I, cousin of Napoleon III,known universally
by his childhood nickname of Plon-Plon.
The absurd and fascinating career of this arrogant,tempestuous and delightful man casts a wholly unusual light on European history of the last century.
A republican prince whose democratic and anti-clerical sentiments scandalised his family; 'the greatest scamp in Europe' to Lord Aberdeen but 'picturesque and eloquent' to Disraeli; rejected suitor of Princess Mary of Cambridge but the lover of many other women; an ill-starred general in two wars; a loyal friend of Saint-Beuve and Flaubert; an amateur of science who visited Greenland; from time to time something like a serious statesman; and reputedly the best talker in Europe: such was the most remarkable member of the Bonaparte family after his uncle and certainly the most engaging of them all.
Edgar Holt's life is the first written in English and is more candid and comprehensive than the few that have appeared in France.The full story of Plon-Plon's abortive wooing of Princess Mary is told for the first time,from the Royal Archives.Italian sources have revealed much new detail about his private life which in Plon-Plon's case was as interesting as,and certainly more rewarding than,his public career.
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