FREE - ebook, Désirée, queen of Sweden and Norway

Désirée, queen of Sweden and Norway  By Karl Fredrik Lotarius Hochschild


I suspect this was a major sourcebook to Annemarie Selinko's DESIREE.   It contains many letters and is a short charming read, by someone who clearly loved and admired the Queen.

Portraits of Josephine

"Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of the French", by Robert Jacques François Faust Lefèvre (Bayeux 1755 - Paris 1830).

 
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"Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of the French", by Antoine-Jean Gros (Paris 1771 - Meudon 1835). 

 
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"Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of the French", by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (Cluny 1758 - Paris 1823).

 
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"Empress Josephine" by Firmin Massot (Geneva 1766 - Geneva 1849).

 
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"Empress Josephine" painted 1806 by François Pascal Simon Gérard (Rome 1770 - Paris 1837). 

 
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"Empress Josephine" painted 1807 by Andrea Appiani (Milan 1754 - Milan 1817).

 
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"Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of the French", painted 1807 by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (Cluny 1758 - Paris 1823).