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16 paź 2021 · As a result, Finding Napoleon has three intertwining threads: Napoleon’s defiant struggle after he’s lost everything; the adaptation of his unfinished novel Clisson into his romantic origin story; and Albine de Montholon’s zigzag between a liaison with “the world’s most famous man” and bourgeois happiness. While an emperor is at the ...
6 kwi 2021 · I’m stranded 5,000 miles from Paris on the miserable British island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. Charles de Montholon—my (third) husband, a marquis and general, but poor as a beggar’s brat—and I followed Napoleon Bonaparte here into….
6 kwi 2021 · In exile on St. Helena, he is accompanied by a select few including Albine de Montholon. Albine is the wife of one of his generals and an aristocratic survivor of the French revolution, who becomes Napoleon’s last mistress.
After the defeated Emperor Napoleon goes into exile on tiny St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic, he and his lover, Albine de Montholon, plot to escape and rescue his young son.
14 kwi 2021 · Rodenberg interweaves three compelling narratives: the first-person memoir of Albine, Countess de Montholon, who accompanies Bonaparte to St. Helena alongside her husband; a third-person accounting of Napoleon’s life on the island; and the romance novel Clisson that Napoleon is secretly composing to send to his son.
6 kwi 2021 · A forgotten woman of history—the audacious Countess Albine—helps narrate their tale of intrigue, desire, and betrayal. After the defeated Emperor Napoleon goes into exile on tiny St. Helena Island in the remote South Atlantic, he and his lover, Albine de Montholon, plot to escape and rescue his young son.
7 kwi 2021 · In it, the aging, defeated emperor finishes his youthful, idealistic manuscript while he and his last lover, Albine de Montholon, struggle in exile on remote St. Helena Island in the South Atlantic. What do you hope for readers to be thinking when they read your novel? I expect many readers to say “What? This is Napoleon?
