The prince and the Yankee
the tale of a country girl who became a princess : her adventures in the American Civil War, the Mexican uprising, and the Franco-Prussian war
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Word Count
50,500 words, Guess
Page Count
202 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL18207643M
- ISBN-101860648975
- OCLC Control Number51569014
- OCLC Control Number710976009
- Internet Archiveprinceyankeetale0000whit
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- Goodreads475094
- LibraryThing8302597
Classifications
- LCCE467.1.S18 W45 2003
Description
"Beautiful, vivacious, fearless Agnes Leclerq Joy was 21 years old when she met Prince Felix zu Salm-Salm, a Prussian officer in the Union Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War. Their marriage took Agnes from small-town Vermont and a short lived career as a circus artist to the royal palaces of Europe. She accompanied Felix on his Civil War campaigns, schemed with the powerful in Washington for his advancement and secured the young officer's promotion to the rank of General in the US army when he could barely speak English. She followed him to Mexico to fight for the ill-fated Emperor Maximilian, then returned home to the Salm ancestral castle in Germany after his defeat. Agnes was a remarkable woman. Kings, presidents, senators, governors and generals all succumbed to her charms. She pleaded with the implacable Benito Juarez for Maximilian's life and the German Emperor honoured her for her hospital work during the Franco-Prussian War. Felix's life was cut short in 1870 when he was killed in the war. Although she toyed with the idea of joining a convent, the indefatigable American country-girl lived out her life in fin de siecle Europe as a grand if impoverished continental aristocrat."--Jacket.
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