# The Second Empress

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- Book: [The Second Empress](https://www.bookquiver.com/michelle-moran/the-second-empress) ([The Second Empress.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michelle-moran/the-second-empress.md))
- Authors: [Michelle Moran](https://www.bookquiver.com/michelle-moran)
- Publisher: quercus
- ISBN: 978-08-5738-862-9
- Published: 2013-03-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

1810. Palais des Tuileries, France. As a princess of the Holy Roman Empire, Marie-Louise Habsburg knows the importance of family loyalty. So when her father asks her to save his crown by marrying a foreign stranger twice her age she has no choice but to obey. But when she arrives in Paris, is becomes clear that Marie-Louise will have to fight for a place in her new husband's affections. Between a scorned first wife determined to hold on to her title and a fiendishly devious sister-in-law, will the young princess ever be able to win her rightful place at court? Meet Marie-Louise Bonaparte, youngest wife of Napoleon the Great and France's unwilling Second Empress.