Queen Victoria and the Bonapartes by Aronson, Theo - 1972

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed. Spine very slightly cocked, page ridges very faintly foxed. 1972 Hard Cover. ix, 260 pp. "What do you say to the wonderful proceedings in Paris, which really seem like a story in a book or a play?" wrote Queen Victoria to her uncle, King Leopold of the Belgians, in December 1851. Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the great Napoleon Bonaparte, had made himself dictator of France, stealing the limelight of the European stage to open the first act of a play that would last for more than thirty years