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The Mistress from Chandernagore - The child bride who achieved eminence in Napoleon's empire (Paperback)
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The Mistress from Chandernagore - The child bride who achieved eminence in Napoleon's empire (Paperback)
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What is a poor teenage girl from the French settlement in India to
do, betrayed by her husband, her family separated by war and given
up by a patron whose duel marked the end of his India career? In
this, the first biography of Mme Talleyrand, Alex Hunter explores
the life of a figure of history that deserves to have her story
told, not just in the footnotes. In seeking a new life, Catherine
must learn how to make it in a man's world. She becomes attached to
a young Englishman with troubles enough of his own. They escape to
Paris and enjoy the salad days of Louis XVI's cultured society
until her lover's career move once more leaves Catherine to her own
devices. No longer a naive teenager, she cultivates her society
connections, careless of the gathering revolutionary storm.
Unprepared for the bloody insurrection of 10th August 1792, she
flees to England where she finds a freebooter prepared to help her,
for a price, and is introduced to the nascent British secret
service. Struggling to live independently, she meets a French
emigre, the disgraced bishop Talleyrand, down on his luck, and
resolves to help him. Little did she know that this crippled
'Pegleg' would one day become the new Republic's Foreign Minister
and in a position to repay her kindness, not least when she is
arrested as a spy. Is it just mutually convenient respect or is
there a deeper attraction growing? Despite Josephine being
Catherine's ally, Napoleon objects to his key minister keeping
Catherine as a mistress. Is Catherine to be abandoned yet again or
can they be married? As an ex-bishop, he would need a papal
dispensation. As a former courier for the British, she could yet be
exposed as a spy. What will it take for the loving couple to secure
public recognition that she is no longer the mistress from the
Indies and he no longer the philanderer of the past?
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