Napoleon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte

Set in post-revolutionary France, The Conquest depicts love growing between a colonel in Napoleon 's army and an ancien-regime duchess. Then in the second act the duchess is abducted and threatened by the colonel...

In South Africa FD remembered warmly, even sentimentally, her childhood meeting with the Prince Imperial (son of Louis-Napoleon of France, an early anglophile) whom she had met as a child and who had died fighting...

MTL had no recognized relationship with the Empress , though she later claimed to have been introduced to her many years earlier. She may have hoped to gather information for a biography of the Prince Imperial