Marie Louise of Austria
1791-1847
When Josephine
failed to produce an heir for Napoleon, he went shopping for a new
bride among the royal houses
of Europe. He then acquired a teenage bride from the Austrian royal
house. Marie Louise
dutifully produced a son for him, but when Napoleon fell, there
remained the question of what to do with his wife. It wasn't her
fault that she had been married to a monster, so her Austrian relatives
found an interim job for her as Duchess of Parma.
