Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire by John Bierman 1988 First Edition

Profiles the life and rollicking times of the man who became the Emperor Napoleon III, detailing his improbable rise, his theatrical politics, and the numerous sexual liaisons that made him the most scandalous ruler of the day. 

In Bierman's delightfully disdainful biography, Louis Napoleon, the bungling, sexually athletic ruler of France's Second Empire, emerges as an implausible monarch.  Behind the imperial glitter, Napoleon's private life was the scandal of Europe. Apart from his innumerable one-night encounters, his mistresses included Harriet Howard, a wealthy English courtesan who pawned her jewelry to further his ambitions; the Countess Castiglione, the young Italian spy who was called "the most beautiful woman in Europe"; Marguerite Bellanger, a circus stunt rider and good-time girl; and the Countess Walewska, scheming wife of his own foreign minister. And always, enduring his infidelities, there was the beautiful but frigid Eugénie, to whom, he said, "I always return with pleasure."

Title: Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire 
Author: John Bierman 
Publisher: St. Martin's Press 175 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Υ. 10010 
Publication Date: 1988 
Edition: First Edition (January 1, 1988) 
Binding: Hardcover 
Language: English 
Pages: 439 
ISBN 0-312-01827-4 
Measures approximately: 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 x 1 3/8 inch (24 x 16 x 3.5 cm.) 
Condition of the book: Please see the images. 
Interests: 1. Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873. 2. France- Kings and rulers-Biography. 3. France-History-Second Empire, 1852-1870.

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