Perhaps the most successful historical romance since Gone with the Wind, Désirée is the bestselling novel of Napoleon’s first love.
All the passions and intrigues of Bonaparte’s court are seen through the eyes of a silk merchant’s daughter from Marseilles, a young woman who became Napoleon’s fiancee and, ultimately, the Queen of Sweden.
Romantic but True
Back in pre-WAG days, when teenaged girls’ fantasies could be expressed by the song, ‘Some day my prince will come’, I read and reread the perfect wish-fulfilment tale. Annemarie Selinko’s...
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