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The "Famous Women of the French Court" series covers notable women -- many of them married to Napoleon Bonaparte or associated with him -- and their lives before, during, and after Napoleon's reign. This volume concerns Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchess de Berry, an Italian princess of the House of Bourbon who married into the French royal family, and was the mother of Henri, Count of Chambord, the last serious Bourbon pretender to the crown of France.

The "Famous Women of the French Court" series covers notable women -- many of them wives of Napoleon Bonaparte or associated with him -- and their lives before, during, and after Napoleon's reign. Marie Louise (Maria Ludovica Leopoldina Franziska Therese Josepha Lucia; Italian: Maria Luigia Leopoldina Francesca Teresa Giuseppa Lucia; 1791-1847) was an Austrian archduchess who reigned as Duchess of Parma from 1814 until her death. She was Napoleon's second wife and, as such, Empress of the French from 1810 to 1814.

The "Famous Women of the French Court" series covers notable women -- many of them wives of Napoleon Bonaparte or associated with him -- and their lives before, during, and after Napoleon's reign. This volume concerns Marie-Therese Charlotte of France (1778-1851), Madame Royale, who was the eldest child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (and the only one of their children to reach adulthood; her siblings all died before the age of 20). She married to Louis Antoine, Duke of Angouleme, the eldest son of the future Charles X, Louis XVI's brother. After her marriage, she was known as the Duchess of Angouleme. She became the Dauphine of France upon the accession of her father-in-law to the throne of France in 1824. Technically she was Queen of France for twenty minutes, on 2 August 1830, between the time her father-in-law signed the instrument of abdication and the time her husband, reluctantly, signed the same document.

The "Famous Women of the French Court" series covers notable women -- many of them married to Napoleon Bonaparte or associated with him -- and their lives before, during, and after Napoleon's reign. This volume concerns Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), the first wife of Napoleon I, and thus the first Empress of the French (commonly called Empress Josephine or just Josephine).

The "Famous Women of the French Court" series covers notable women -- many of them married to Napoleon Bonaparte or associated with him -- and their lives before, during, and after Napoleon's reign. This volume concerns the court around Napoleon and his first queen, Josephine.