Napoleon III Emperor of France

The volume revolves around the events in Italy surrounding Napoleon III 's betrayal, in the treaty of Villafranca in July 1859, of allies in the Italian nationalist cause against Austria, but earlier poems are also...

Certainly the plot drags, the characterisation is wooden, and the book is weighed down by ponderous speeches. In the opening domestic scene, Toussaint's son is helped to read the word Epictetus on the spine of...

Critics were divided about the success of the poem, as was perhaps to be expected given EBB 's passionate embrace of Italian nationalism and her criticism of British foreign policy. The Guardian called it an...

After the inaugural lecture, the New York Herald called her words very chaste and poetical and her enunciation clear and distinct. When her thoughts turned to the Italian struggle, her brilliant eyes flashed like...

She writes that her health suffered greatly from dwelling so intensely on such a painful topic; and I had the sensation strongly that I was being dragged down to the grave by Orsini , to...

To her many friends and visitors Lady Blessington soon added the exiled Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , John Forster , and in the early 1840s, Charles Dickens . After Louis Napoleon's escape...

Her work for the annuals led to her connection with Lady Blessington and her niece Marguerite Power . Despite the disapproval of other friends she was a regular visitor to Blessington's home, Gore House...

While they were in Paris their visitors included philosopher and politician Victor Cousin , writers Alfred de Vigny , Jules Barthélemy Saint Hilaire , and Léon de Wailly , Positivist philosopher Auguste Comte , and...

The widowed mother of Lady Florence Douglas (later FD ) converted to Roman Catholicism and fled to Paris (and to the protection of the French Emperor ) with her younger children, lest their guardians should...

Ouida 's father, Louis Ramé —he was originally from France—had moved in the 1830s to Bury St Edmunds, where he taught French intermittently. He was rumoured, though without conclusive evidence, to have been a...