Madame Carlotta Gazzani, Charlotte Rose Bartani, Italian writer, 1789-1827. Lectrice or reader to the Empress Josephine, she had an affair with Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805. After a miniature by Jacques Augustin. Colour mezzotint by Michel Manzi and Maurice Joyant from Frederic Massons Napoleon et les Femmes, Napoleon and the Fair Sex, Goupil, Paris, 1906.
Madame Carlotta Gazzani, Charlotte Rose Bartani, Italian writer, 1789-1827. Lectrice or reader to the Empress Josephine, she had an affair with Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805. After a miniature by Jacques Augustin. Colour mezzotint by Michel Manzi and Maurice Joyant from Frederic Massons Napoleon et les Femmes, Napoleon and the Fair Sex, Goupil, Paris, 1906.