The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

An Evening at La Malmaison [from 'Episodes of French History during the Consulate and the First Empire']

Miss Pardoe. "An Evening at La Malmaison [from 'Episodes of French History during the Consulate and the First Empire']." New-York Saturday Press, February 12, 1859, 4.
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Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

A story in which Napolean Bonaparte relates a tale told by the headsman of Frederick William, King of Wurtemburg. The headsman's tale recounts the execution of a young woman, which although never mentioned, many of the listeners suspect to be the king's young wife.