Queen Hortense: A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era

This book is a historical fiction novel about a real-life figure named Hortense de Beauharnais. She was Queen consort of Holland and the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoléon I as the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. Hortense later married Napoléon I's brother, Louis Bonaparte, who had been made King of Holland. She was the mother of Napoléon III, Emperor of the French; Louis II of Holland; and Napoléon Louis Charles Bonaparte who died at the age of four.