iron duke 发表于 2012-4-18 15:40
是哪一段?
大概是这一段,不过作者自己也说传闻不大靠谱
Finally, the duke wrote a note to Lady Frances Webster, a young woman in whose intimate company he had spent time during the preceding weeks in Brussels.
Exactly how far their intimacy went has remained a matter of debate ever since. Lady Frances was a charming twenty-two-year-old, married to an officer in the Hussars who publicly betrayed her, and she had quickly learned to avenge herself for her husband's infidelities; on the other hand, she was in the eighth month of a pregnancy, a fact that the duke's biographers have found sufficient to clear him of all suspicion. However, their Victorian zeal seems excessive when one considers that the preceding year, in Paris, Wellington had conducted one love affair with Giuseppina Grassini, a singer at the Opera, and another with Mademoiselle Georges, the most famous actress at the Comedie Franchise, both of whom had already passed through Napoleon's bed. |