Napoleon's Secret Daughter by Arthur Bernède
Flagship English Translation • 2026

Napoleon’s Secret Daughter

By Arthur Bernède • Translated from the French by N. Dass

Paris burns in the fire of revolution. Amid the chaos of 1792, a condemned marquise’s infant is rescued from the shadow of the guillotine—unaware that the child is the secret daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte himself.

Sixteen years later, Laurence de Malet has grown into a fearless revolutionary sworn to destroy the Emperor. What neither knows is that the tyrant she hunts is her own father.

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“I have followed, step by step, the history of that era… I have set this child of Bonaparte’s youth and passion, who stands up and cries out with all the imperious forces of her race, her youth, and her hatred, against the man who gave her life, for the one who saved her.”
Arthur Bernède — Le Petit Parisien, 1922

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