LOVER OF JUSTICE
LAVELLETTE BRUCE, by lan Bruce; Hamish Hamilton, English price 21/-. A DESCENDANT of that natural radical, Michael Bruce (whose other claim to fame is that he was for a time the lover of Lady Hester Stanhope-a picturesque connection which cost his father a lot of money for years afterwards) gives us an account, supported by copious use of original letters, of his intrepid ancestor’s troubled career in Paris after the Hundred Days. Bruce succeeded in extricating one minor victim of their vengeance from the clutches of the restored Bourbons. His attachment to the cause of the hangerson of the defeated Napoleon was strengthened by an affair, of indeterminate scope, with Marshal Ney’s widow. This and one or two other adventures make us realise that the Napoleonic era was very much richer than our own in high-class titled courtesans, richer perhaps also in English gentlemen disinterestedly resisting tyranny in foreign parts. But readers of pornography will not find this quite their cup of tea, a worthy footnote to history, often sober to the point of tedium. ©
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 14
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180LOVER OF JUSTICE New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 773, 14 May 1954, Page 14
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