![]() ![]() “I thought what would it be like to arrive in a country that had beheaded your great aunt, only 25 years later. So she was also filling (her great aunt) Marie Antoinette’s shoes, in some ways, and that didn’t end too well for her great aunt. She was considered his good luck charm, and it was only less than 25 years before that another Austrian - Marie Antoinette - had come over to marry a French king. ![]() Josephine was really, really well liked by the public at that time. I had never really thought about Marie-Louise, she was an 18-year-old girl from Austria and she took the place of (first wife) Josephine. It was there that they showed us Marie-Louise’s bedroom. I was standing in Fontainebleu, just outside of Paris. For my third book, ‘Cleopatra’s Daughter,’ it was when I was doing an underwater dive in Alexandria. So for my first book, ‘Nefertiti,’ it was seeing her iconic bust in Berlin. Moran, who is currently working on a book about an Indian warrior queen, spoke with Reuters about Napoleon, his second wife, and why she likes to write about history.Ī: “Each of my books has been inspired by actually either seeing the place where my characters live, or seeing something that was important to them. So begins “The Second Empress” by Michelle Moran, her fifth novel and the latest in a collection of tales about strong women throughout history, from ancient Egypt’s Nefertiti to Cleopatra and Madame Tussaud. The pearl, originally from the French crown jewels and a gift from Emperor Napoleon I to his second wife Marie-Louise in 1811, is expected to fetch 300,000-480,000 pounds ($500,000 - $800,000) at auction in Geneva in November. La Regente pearl, the fifth largest pearl known to exist, is seen before its auction at a preview at Christie's auctioneers in London, October 11, 2005. ![]()
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