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...vast, glassed-in courtyard of the Hotel des Invalides, only a few paces from the tomb of Napoleon, the whole 2,500 Legionnaires were seated at one time to eat a Paris lunch so good that ultimately all cheered and handclapped a strapping Legionnaire who rose and bellowed: "So far as I am concerned the French debt is settled-all agreed...
...Self Portrait of the Artist Slightly Squiffed by Baron Vivant Dominique Denon, Napoleon's chief looter and director of the Louvre...
Central character of the novel is Napoleon. Heroine is his Polish mistress, 20-year-old, blonde, serious-minded Marie Walewska. By rubberizing history, pseudonymous English Author Pilgrim contrives a cinematic tale based on the ten months which marked the height of Napoleon's career, the beginning of his skid toward Waterloo as a result of his Spanish campaign...
Marie, delegated by her countrymen to play the golddigger for Polish freedom, responded to Napoleon's assault courtship by really falling in love. First meetings however, found her at least as full of politics as passion, and for the story s sake, Marie's political acumen matched her high-minded sex appeal. Cold-blooded ugly Minister of Police Fouche alternated between trying to frame her and suggesting she marry the Emperor. Aristocratic, wily Talleyrand gave her an even worse time. Josephine counted on Marie's withdrawal when she discovered that ''one may have too much...
...inventing the character of a handsome young page who acts as Marie's loyal escort, the author furnishes an eye-witness to scenes left out of histories. The page overhears the conversation in which Talleyrand double-crosses Napoleon with the emissaries of Russia and Austria. He and Marie uncover the plot to put Murat on the French throne; as courier to Napoleon in Spain, he sits in on long conversations between Napoleon and his intimates (partly taken from the Emperor's speeches in the Russian campaign, three years after the story's close...