ABSTRACT
Élisa at Lucca—Her Court—Her palace—Energy and ability with which she governs her principality—Her Civil List—Her commercial enterprises—She forms a company to work the marble quarries of Carrara : success of this undertaking—Her patronage of literature and the arts—She gives birth to a daughter—Her country seat at Marlia—Her affairs of the heart : Lespérut and Bartolomeo Cenami—Her skilful attitude towards the Emperor gains her his confidence and favour—She obtains a considerable increase of territory—Astuteness she displays in order to persuade Napoleon to extend the Concordat of Italy to Lucca, and enable her to confiscate the revenues of the religious houses—Resentment which this measure arouses among her subjects.
