Apart from her amazing love affairs, Pauline's chief interest in life was the success and welfare of her beloved brother, Napoleon. For him she sacrificed more than she did for any other man and she made desperate attempts to persuade the English authorities to allow her are his exile. Characteristically, her anger with the English did not prevent her from giving her favours to English "lovers who attracted her attention, When on one occasion a poet rebuked her for forgetting her brother's exile in St, Helena, she retorted: forgotten St. Helena? Have I forgotten St. Helena? But have you not seen how he suffers when he is there, this Marquis of Dot whom 1 kept standing a whole hour this morning while he helped re to dress, handing my woman pins and playing the rôle of Court Jester while he was suffering from rheumatism
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