Frank B. Goodrich

Property from an Upper East Side Collection.

A beautifully illustrated edition of Goodrich's chronicle of the influential female members of Napoleon's court.

• Frank B. Goodrich (American).
• Illustrations by J. Champagne (French).
• The Court of Napoleon, or Society under the First Empire with Portraits of its Beauties Wits and Heroines.
• New York: Derby & Jackson, 1857.
• 416 pp. 1 vol.
• [16] leaves of color plates and portraits.
• Publisher's deluxe full brown blind-stamped morocco, raised bands, all edges gilt. 

Goodrich's survey covers the women of the Revolution, the "furies of the scaffold," society under the Terror and the Directory, the "revival of manners" under Napoleon, the creation of the Legion of Honor, the Imperial household, the state of literature, the press, science, painting, and drama under Napoleon's rule, Napoleon's early loves, and his manner toward women. The women featured in the lovely hand-colored lithographs include Joséphine, Charlotte Corday, Madame Junot, Madame Récamier, Pauline Bonaparte, Caroline Bonaparte, Madame de Staël, among others.