Lucia, a Venetian life in the age of Napoleon, Andrea Di Robilant
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Lucia, a Venetian life in the age of Napoleon, Andrea Di Robilant
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Lucia
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Andrea Di Robilant
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a Venetian life in the age of Napoleon
Summary
In 1787, Lucia, the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of a prominent Venetian statesman, is married off to Alvise Mocenigo, scion of one of the most powerful Venetian families. But their life as a golden couple will be suddenly transformed when Venice falls to Bonaparte. As the larger events unfolding around Lucia mingle with her most personal concerns, we witness---through her letters to her sister and other primary sources---her painful series of miscarriages and the pressure on her to produce an heir; her impassioned affair with an Austrian officer and its stunning results; the glamour and strain of her career as a hostess in Hapsburg Vienna and lady-in-waiting at the court of Napoleon's stepson, Prince Eugn̈e de Beauharnais, as well as her intimate relationship with the Empress Joséphine; and her amazing firsthand account of the defeat of Napoleon in Paris in 1814
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