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Little.Egret · 04-12-2018, 07:30 PM

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Napoleon and His Parents by Dorothy Carrington

There is more to Napoleon’s parents than when and where they married.

Documents that could have told another tale remained hidden away in Corsican homes and archives, too little known and too fragmentary to discredit the accepted story. And all this time, and till today, an essential source remained unexploited: the Bonaparte family papers, saved from the destruction of their home when they fled Corsica in 1793, and inherited by Prince Louis Napoleon. Access to this invaluable collection has led to a story very different from any hitherto presented; one which, if incomplete, and at moments obscure, is unquestionably closer to what really happened.

The author reveals Carlo as a militant partisan of Pasquale Paoli, revolutionary leader of independent Corsica, and Letizia as the fashionably-dressed reigning beauty of Paoli’s mountain capital. She shows them fleeing for their lives before the invading army of Louis XV. Then, in record time, they emerge as favourites of the French commander Marbeuf, the most powerful man on the island.

First published 1988 by Penguin Books.

Dorothy Carrington (1910-2002) studied at Oxford University before settling in Corsica where she began a career as a writer. She was known for her award-winning book on her home island, Granite Island, and for her scholarship on one of its revolutionaries, the Corsican liberator Pasquale Paoli). She married the painter Francis Rose, becoming Lady Rose, and was a lecturer and journalist.

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