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It was Napoleon who arranged the marriage in 1800
between Laure and his aide-de-camp Andoche Junot.
Laure accompanied her husband to Portugal,
where he was ambassador (1804–05).
The marriage was unhappy, and Laure had affairs with Prince Metternich,
Austrian ambassador to Paris (1806–09), and, later,
with a Royalist aristocrat named Maurice de Balincourt.

Always generous to the Junots,
Napoleon became annoyed with Laure’s entertaining former émigrés
and ordered her to leave Paris after her husband’s death (1813).

Though she persuaded the minister of police to let her return,
the Second Restoration (1815) saw the final collapse of her fortunes.

After many years in Rome, she returned to Paris, where she completed her
Mémoires sur Napoléon, la Révolution, le Consulat, l’Empire et la Restauration, 8 vol. (1831–35).

Noted as a vehicle of caustic wit and extravagance,
her memoirs, which are often incorrect,
are also often malicious, especially with regard to Napoleon.

Tänk om alla flashbacks albaner kunde fokusera sin energi på att prestera någonting vettigt. Skapa egna historiska profiler menar jag, istället för att sno andras. På den punkten kan vi snabbt konstatera att albaniens nyproklamerade stolthet Napoleon inte delar sina landsmäns nationella särdrag. Ett Napoleonkomplex resulterar normalt i något mer vidlyftiga upptåg än gråt och tandagnisslan på ett internetforum.