André Castelot Books

Andre Castelot was a French writer born in Belgium who wrote 65 biographies of famous persons in the History of France. He is perhaps best known for his biography of Josephine. His biography of Napoleon emphasizes not only his military campaigns, but his many love affairs and his many mistresses. It shows how his tumultuous relationship with Josephine influenced and affected his Napoleonic Code. It was because of Josephine's fickleness and unfaithfulness to Napoleon that Napoleon decreed that all women upon leaving their father's houses and entering into matrimony must understand that henceforth they are to be under the control of their husbands. Women cannot be trusted to be free, said Napoleon. Yet, Napoleon was easily influenced by women. On page 299 is recounted an incident where his Governor of Berlin had committed an act of treason, and had been arrested and faced death. Then, the man's wife, who was expecting a child, came and threw herself at the feet of Napoleon, begging forgiveness. With that, Napoleon ordered the man's release, something that Napoleon did not often do. Throughout this book, there are discussions of Napoleon's relationships with women, including his fears that he could not father a child or that a child who had been born was not really his."

Josephine: eine starke Frau - mit offensichtlichen Schwächen, die ihren Ruhm jedoch vermehrten: leichtfertig und vergnügungssüchtig, freigebig und respektlos. 1796 heiratet sie den General Bonaparte, der sie zur Kaiserin machte, sich aber 1809 von ihr scheiden ließ, da sie ihm keine Kinder gebar. Dennoch blieb sie für ihn die Liebe seines Lebens, über die er im Anblick ihres Grabes sagte: "Wunderbare Josephine. Sie wenigstens hätte mich nie verlassen

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462 p. : 21 cm

L'ardente Marguerite de Valois, puis de Navarre, petite-fille de François Ier, fille de Henri II, sœur de François II, Charles IX et de Henri III, première épouse de Henri IV, connut une existence romanesque. Certes, "elle avait la tête près du bonnet, a dit Ronsard, et le bonnet volontiers de travers", et l'on peut critiquer bien de ses intrigues politiques, mais celle que l'on appelait la "déesse de son siècle", par son intelligence, son érudition, son goût pour le latin et la poésie, a ébloui tous ceux qui l'on vue vivre et aimer. Brantôme fut amoureux de la belle Margot, "si belle que rien n'existe, disait-il, de si beau au monde". Et ses nombreux amants furent bien de cet avis. Des amants dont plusieurs furent assassinés et exécutés ou même, pour deux d'entre eux, tués jusque dans ses bras... Ayant mené la guerre contre son frère Henri III et son mari Henri IV, emprisonné durant dix-neuf années à Usson, sinistre nid d'aigle auvergnat, ce personnage d'amour, de cape et d'épée, fut assurément la plus extraordinaire princesse de l'histoire de France.

French

16x22. 1959. reliure pleine toile sans rhodoid. 210 pages.

L'autore narra la tumultuosa esistenza di Maria de' Medici, moglie e prestovedova di Enrico IV, poi reggente incontrastata del regno di Francia. E' unastoria di passioni forti, di intrighi, di lotte per il potere: l'ultima, e lapiù accesa, quella che contrapporrà la Regina al figlio Luigi XIII e che siconcluderà con l'esilio di lei e l'abbandono del trono.