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Made Them Marry. Napoleon as a Tyrannical Matchmaker
The American Register recounts Napoleon Bonaparte forcing noblewomen to wed favored generals and officials. It details marriages of Adele de la Rochefoucauld, Stephanie Tascher de la Pagerie, Antoinette Murat, and others, with coercive orders, arrests, and rapid unions. The piece portrays a brutal system of arranged matches used to bind estates, titles, and power to Napoleon’s authority.
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Napoleon
Bouches Am Weser
Elecin
Mouton
Count de Loban
Countess Stolberg
Countess Albany
Stuarts
Fanny Dilon
Count Dillon
Mlle
Stephanie Tascher de la Pagerie
Germain
Josephine
M. de Gentry
Hotel de Chimay
Spain
England
Paris
Estraint
Hohenzollern
Prassia
Antoinette Murat
Sabremi
Naples
Antoinette
Fernand de Croy
Fernand
Russia
Police
Savery
American Register