It will therefore I think be admitted that the present volumes in which I have endeavoured to give a full and unprejudiced history of the Women Bonapartes call for no apology; and I may even venture to believe that whatever their shortcomings they will be welcomed by the English and American public as an attempt to fill a place in our Napoleonic literature which has been long vacant. |Revival: The Women Bonapartes vol. I (1908) The Mother and Three Sisters of Napoleon I | History