Roi de Rome
Josephine was a widow with two children when she married Napoleon. He was keen to have an heir but initially
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Fontainebleau
Madame de Montesquiou ordered another rocking cradle in elm wood trimmed with laurels (the Roman emblem of victory). As usual,
Napoleon II
Eight months after the King of Rome’s first—and only– stay at Compiègne, Napoleon headed off for the ill-fated campaign in