Hortense's Memoirs

Hortons had four children with armand. With the help of her brother, hortense plotted her escape. Her brother procured the horses for her and arranged the secret travel. Dressed as a man, she left france by carriage, leaving her four young children behind. Under cover of darkness, hortens made her way to rome to escape her husband. She was also offered the protection of her former suitor, the duke of savoy. It was there at the duke's comfortable estate in chambray that hortense wrote memoirs. The book was a wild success, so popular that it actually spond imitations. There were fake