Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantes - Memoirs of Napoleon, his court and family

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His love for his wife was not of the same nature. He loved her, no doubt, but without making of her one of those divinities which dazzle the acutest understanding, and prevent it from perceiving any imperfection, moral or personal in the beloved object.

Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantes

Madame Tallien was kind and obliging, but such is the effect on the multitude of a name that bears a stain, that her cause was never separated from that of her husband.

Of Thérésa Tallien (Princess of Chimay)

Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantes

Of Madame Letizia Bonaparte:

She was very ignorant, not only of our literature, but of that of her own country.

Letizia Bonaparte was the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte

Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantes