Laure Junot d Abrantes was young, bright,
and pretty, a childhood friend of the
Bonapartes in Corsica. She knew everyone in
Paris. When at age sixteen she made a bril-
liant marriage to the dashing General Junot,
governor of Paris, she became one of the
foremost hostesses of the era and played a
major role at the flamboyant court of
Napoleon and Josephine. In those golden
times, social life, so rudely interrupted by the
Revolution, flourished again, giving her a
chance to dazzle at ball after ball. When she
discoveredJunot unfaithful, she retaliated by
taking Metternich, one of the century s fore-
most statesmen, as one ofa substantial series
of lovers.
Gossip and social climbing, those two
mainstays of American life at the end of the
twentieth century, were already rife in the
France of the 1820s, and Laure Junot had a
talent for both.
We always want to know what great men
and their families are like in private, and
Laure s immensely successful memoirs bring
to life the intimacies of the Imperial family,
their amorous intrigues, their constant feuds
for more wealth and power in the parvenu
"Nouvelle Societe."
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