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E: 08/04 WIN A COPY OF THE MISTRESS FROM CHANDERNAGORE (GU, KT & RH Postcodes)
If you want to know more about this girl whose portrait hangs in the Met Museum, you don’t have to go to New York:
She was a teenage bride seduced by an official in the East India Company. Unable to return to husband or family, she had to leave India for a new life and learn how to survive in a man’s world.
Advised to ‘mask your mind and flaunt your figure’, she thus captivated the hearts of certain valiant gentlemen across Europe. If the perils of war, revolution and espionage were not enough, she then had to overcome the resistance of both Napoleon and Pope Pius VII to marry her lover, Talleyrand, and become a Princess of the French Empire.
You can read her remarkable, and true, story recently published as The Mistress from Chandernagore.
Or to win a free paperback copy, please answer the following question:
Q: Who were the two key opponents to Talleyrand marrying his mistress?
Answer: Napoleon and Pope Pius VII
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