Charles Desnoyer (1806-1858) and Leon Beauvallet (1828-1885) were
French playwrights of the mid-nineteenth century. THE KING OF ROME
focuses on the Emperor Napoleon's only son, the Duke of Reichstadt,
who was held a captive by his maternal grandfather, the Emperor of
Austria. Fearing that he would emulate his father or be used by a
Napoleonic conspiracy to capture the French throne, the Duke was
kept in ignorance of his father's identity, as well as of the basic
facts of recent European history; and an attempt was also made to
debauch his morals, in order to discredit his name if he did
escape. This play traces the attempt of a French soldier to
penetrate the Austrian palace where the boy was kept, as part of a
failed attempt to free him from his "prison"; and the awakening of
the younger Napoleon to an awareness of his deadly family heritage.
First-rate political drama by two accomplished writers
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