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Jerome Bonaparte

Jerome Bonaparte: The War Years, 1800-1815 by Glenn J. Lamar. Biography of Napoleon's younger brother, who became king of Westphalia.

Betsy Bonaparte: The Belle of Baltimore by Claude Bourguignon-Frasseto. Biography of the American woman who married Jerome Bonaparte but was abandoned by him.

The Amazing Mrs. Bonaparte by Harnett Thomas Kane. Novel about Betsy Bonaparte. Out of print, but available from Alibris.

Joseph Bonaparte

The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph by Patricia Tyson Stroud. About Joseph Bonaparte, who was king of Naples from 1806 to 1808, and king of Spain from 1808 to 1813.

The Reluctant King: Joseph Bonaparte, King of the Two Sicilies and Spain by Michael Ross. Out of print, but available from Alibris.

The Gentle Bonaparte: A Biography of Joseph, Napoleon's Elder Brother by Owen Connelly. From Alibris.

Legacy of Glory: The Bonaparte Kingdom of Spain, 1808-1813 by Michael Glover. From Alibris.

Books About Naples
Books About Spain

Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire by Flora Fraser. Biography of Napoleon's favorite sister. Considered the most beautiful woman in Europe, she shocked the continent with her love affairs, but remained loyal to the emperor (if not to her husbands).

Imperial Venus: A Novel of Napoleon's Favorite Sister by Edgar Maass. Fictional account of the life of Napoleon's sister Pauline. First published in 1947.

Napoleon's Stepdaughter, Queen Hortense

Daughter to Napoleon by Constance Wright. A biography of Napoleon's stepdaughter Hortense de Beauharnais, who became the wife of Louis Bonaparte, queen of Holland, and the mother of Napoleon III. Out of print, but available from Alibris.

The History of Hortense, Daughter of Josephine by John S. C. Abbott. From Alibris.

The Memoirs of Hortense, Queen of Holland by Queen Hortense. The queen's autobiography. Sometimes available from Alibris.

Fiction

A Rose for Virtue by Norah Lofts. A very good novel about the life of Napoleon's stepdaughter Hortense. Out of print, but available from Alibris.

Napoleon II

Napoleon II, the King of Rome, L'Aiglon by Octave Aubry and Elizabeth Abbott. About Napoleon Bonaparte's son by his second wife, Marie-Louise. Out of print, but available from Alibris.

King of Rome: A Biography of Napoleon's Tragic Son by Andre Castelot. From Alibris.

Hitler's Gift to France: The Return of the Ashes of Napoleon II by Georges Poisson, translated by Robert L. Miller. In 1940, Hitler decided to return the ashes of Napoleon II, the Aiglon, only son of Napoleon I. The gesture precipitated a political crisis. This book sheds light on an incident most historians have been at a loss to explain.

Napoleon III & Empress Eugenie

Napoleon III: A Life by Fenton Bresler. Biography of the 19th century emperor. From Alibris.

The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power by Roger Price. Look at how Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was able to establish a Second Empire, and the destruction of the regime because of war against Prussia.

Eugenie: The Empress and Her Empire by Desmond Seward. From 1853 to 1870 Eugenie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III, at times standing in for him as Regent. Her actions affected the course of history.

The Empress Eugenie 1870 to 1910 by Edward Legge. About the wife of Napoleon III. First published in 1910.

Empress Eugenie: Her Secret Revealed by Joyce Cartlidge. Did Napoleon III's wife have an illegitimate child, conceived when she was a teenager in Spain and fathered by the only man she ever truly loved?

End of a Dynasty: The Last Days of the Prince Imperial, Zululand 1879 by Paul Deleage. Written by the only French journalist to cover the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, this is an account of the last few months in the life of the Prince Imperial, only child of Emperor Napoleon III.

Other

The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World by Patricia Tyson Stroud. Biography. Charles-Lucien was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte and a well-known naturalist.

Books About Napoleon I
Books About Josephine
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