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"Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon" by Luise Mühlbach is a historical novel about the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine de Beauharnais. She was the first Empress consort of France. It covers a lot about Napoleon and their relationship. A joy to read. There are many other interesting facets to the revolution. The novel gives great insight into the state of France in the years that brought down the monarchy and made it possible for Napoleon to rise to the emperor.
This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often overshadowed by Napoleon's military might. In this triumphant biography, Kate Williams tells Josephine's searing story, of sexual obsession, politics and surviving as a woman in a man's world. Abandoned in Paris by her aristocratic husband, Josephine's future did not look promising. But while her friends and contemporaries were sent to the guillotine during the Terror that followed the Revolution, she survived prison and emerged as the doyenne of a wildly debauched party scene, surprising everybody when she encouraged the advances of a short, marginalised Corsican soldier, six years her junior. Jo...
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