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Queen Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte
Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte (née de Beauharnais) (1783-1837), Queen consort of Holland, was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoleon I, being the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharn...view moreHortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte (née de Beauharnais) (1783-1837), Queen consort of Holland, was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoleon I, being the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. She later became the wife of the former’s brother, Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and the mother of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French. She had also an illegitimate son, Charles de Morny, 1st Duke of Morny, by her lover Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut.
Arthur Kingsland Griggs (1891-1934) was an editor, translator and author. In addition to translating the Memoirs of Leon Daudet (1925) and The Memoirs of Queen Hortense (1927), he is the author of the popular guidebook Paris for Everyone: Her Present, Her Past and Her Environs (1926) and My Paris: An Anthology of Modern Paris from the Works of Contemporary French Writers (1932).
Jean Hanoteau (1869-1939) was a French officer and historian, the son of General Adolphe Hanoteau, and the father of playwright, actor and journalist William Hanoteau. Upon entering the Saint-Cyr military school in 1892, he was promoted to captain in 1906 and became attached to the historical section of the War Ministry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of his cousin Gabriel Hanotaux. He wrote several historical works and participated in Historical Review (Éditions Presses Universitaires de France) from 1926 to 1936.view less