Napoleon found his flirtatious young sister difficult to control and managed to marry her to the much older General Leclerc, who was the opposite of Pauline. Wealthy, serious and sickly, he was in charge of the French expedition to put down a black rebellion in Haiti.
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Interesting. Don't know if you have seen my blog on Chatsworth House which contains sculptures of Pauline and her brother and mother.
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John