Laure Junot d'Abrantes was a childhood friend of the Bonapartes in Corsica. When she was 16 she married General Junot, Governor of Paris. She became one of the foremost hostesses of the era and played a major role at the flamboyant court of Napoleon and Josephine. Napoleon attempted to seduce her but failed. These memoirs bring to life the intimacies of the Imperial family and Napolean's tumultuous years of power and ultimate defeat.
- ISBN10 0900075120
- ISBN13 9780900075124
- Publish Date 14 March 1991 (first published 21 October 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 April 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Cassell Reference
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English