Princess Mathilde

xi, [1], 324 pp. 8vo. A biography of Princess Mathilde, cousin of the French emperor and niece of Napoleon, whose marriage to Russian millionaire Anatole Demidoff gave her the opportunity to impress the Tsar and other members of the Russian court. After this marriage fell apart, she held popular salons in Paris which attracted members of the intellectual elite such as Flaubert, Gautier, Renan, Taine, the Goncourt brothers, and the two Dumas.