Lucia in the Age of Napoleon

In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman''s daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught up in the turbulence of Napoleon''s march. This is her story, from dazzling young hostess in Habsburg Vienna, lady-in-waiting at the court of Prince Eugene de Beauharnais in Milan, single mother in Paris during the fall of Napoleon''s Empire to Byron''s hard-fisted landlady during the poet''s stay in Venice.