Mémoires de la Reine Hortense

 
 
From the publishers:
 
“Daughter of Alexander and Josephine de Beauharnais, stepdaughter of Napoleon, Hortense de Beauharnais would also become the Emperor's sister-in-law when she married Louis Bonarparte, future King of Holland. Exiled after Waterloo, she appointed herself the guardian of the Napoleonic saga and decided to write her Mémoires…
 
… Retracing the story of the Empire through its most intimate details, this is also the poignant eye-witness account of a true romantic, of an adoring mother who would not see the extraordinary accession of her son: Napoleon III.”