![]() ![]() It has one of the most jaw-breaking subtitles I’ve seen in modern fiction: “The Very Private Life of Hortense, Stepdaughter of Napoleon I, mother of Napoleon III.” trilogy.Ī Rose for Virtue (named for a school prize that gets destroyed inadvertently when Hortense wears it) follows Hortense from the time of her mother and stepfather’s marriage to Hortense’s departure from Paris following Napoleon’s final downfall. ![]() I’ve been rather interested in Josephine and her circle ever since I read Sandra Gulland’s Josephine B. I hadn’t heard of this novel before, so I was delighted to pick it up and find that it was about Hortense, daughter of Josephine Bonaparte and stepdaughter (and sister-in-law) to Napoleon. ![]() Over the New Year’s weekend, I went into a used bookstore on the coast and spotted A Rose for Virtue, a 1971 historical novel by Norah Lofts, waiting patiently on the shelf. ![]()
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