7 November 2016

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (continued): #31: Pauline Fourès


'MARGUERITE PAULINE
FOURÈS
NÉE BELLISLE
DITE LA "BELLILOTE"

COMTESSE DE RANCHOUP
1778 – 1869.'

Pauline Fourès was the mistress of Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt, a subject dealt with in Stefan Zweig's Un caprice de Bonaparte. She also wrote one novel, Lord Wentworth (date unknown), which is said to have been quite a success.

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