'Maurice Dietrichstein, Governor of Napoleon's Son' by Shannon Selin
“Little did Napoleon realize, when releasing Major Maurice Dietrichstein from a French prison in 1800, that the Austrian nobleman would one day be responsible for the education of his son, Napoleon II. More a musical connoisseur than a military man, Dietrichstein became the child's governor after Napoleon's 1815 defeat and remained in that capacity until the boy's death in 1832. Though Dietrichstein was a strict taskmaster with impossibly high expectations, Franz (as Napoleon II was called in Austria) was grateful for the pains his governor took with his education…”