Madame Carlotta Gazzani, born Charlotte Rose Bartani, Italian beauty, 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 Masson’s Napoleon et les Femmes, Napoleon and the Fair Sex, Goupil, Paris, 1906.

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