The Last Great Dance on Earth (34 page)
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For further reading on court fashion designer Louis Leroy
:
Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II,
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If the actress Mademoiselle George intrigued you, read her life story in these books:
A Favourite of Napoleon: Memoirs of Mademoiselle George,
Marguerite Joséphine Weimer George
Napoleon and Mademoiselle George,
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For more on Madame Mère, the imposing matriarch of the Bonaparte clan:
Napoleon’s Mother,
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Memoirs and biographies:
The Memoirs of Queen Hortense,
Hortense, consort of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, 1783–1837
More Than a Queen: The Story of Josephine Bonaparte,
Frances Mossiker
Napoleon,
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Napoleon’s Viceroy: Eugene de Beauharnais
Carola Oman
For more information on the author and the books in the series:
www.sandragulland.com
For more on the fashion, style, costume and military uniform during Napoleon’s reign:
www.fashion-era.com/regency_fashion.htm
For more information and images of Fountainebleau and the Tuileries Palace:
www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/Fontainebleau/Fontainebleau.html
www.georgianindex.net/Napoleon/Tuileries/Tuileries.html
For a history of the Regent Diamond:
www.diamond-legend.info/famous.html http://famousdiamonds. tripod.com/regentdiamond.html
For more on the dances described in the book:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html
For more on the actress Mademoiselle George, mistress of Napoleon:
www.cadytech.com/dumas/related/napoleon_by_morlock.php
To better understand the French Republican calendar:
www.gefrance.com/calrep/calen.htm
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Eugène sends a message regarding Napoleon’s return to France via semaphore—a flag signalling system. For a quick tutorial on the semaphore system:
www.anbg.gov.au/flags/semaphore.html
To view Jacques-Louis David’s painting of the coronation:
www.artchive.com/artchive/D/david/consecration.jpg.html
History is a story, as told by the victor.—
Napoleon
The Last Great Dance on Earth
is a work of fiction based on (and inspired by) the extraordinary life of Josephine Bonaparte.
The Last Great Dance on Earth
© 2000 by Sandra Gulland
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Gulland, Sandra
The last great dance on earth / Sandra Gulland.
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1. Joséphine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763–1814–Fiction. I. Title.
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