Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

ISBN-13: 9781494410957 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str.

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Opis

Excerpt: ... her and hear her talk, that Bettina von Arnim says in her correspondence with Goethe: "The gentlemen stood around the table and planted themselves behind us, elbowing one another. They leaned quite over me, and I said in French, 'Your adorers quite suffocate me.'" While in Germany, her eldest son, then seventeen, had an interview with Bonaparte about the return of his mother. "Your mother," said Napoleon, "could not be six months in Paris before I should be compelled to send her to Bic