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When, in 1804, Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband Napoleon to receive the imperial diadem, few in the vast crowd of onlookers were aware of the dark secrets hidden behind the imperial facade. To her subjects, she appeared to be the most favored woman in France: alluring, wealthy, and with the devoted love of a remarkable husband who was the conqueror of Europe. In actuality, Josephine's life was far darker: her celebrated allure was fading, her wealth was compromised by massive debt, and her marriage was corroded by infidelity and abuse. Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age-an era of revolution and social upheaval, frenzied hedonism and the guillotine. With telling psychological depth, Erickson brings the complex, charming, ever resilient Josephine to life, carrying us from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.… (plus d'informations)
Excellent book but not exactly easy reading. Since I listen to audiobooks I made it through... I don't think I could have finished the hard copy version, so much detail. Interesting and thorough, however, so if you like deep dive books into nobility this is a good one.
When I got this book I thought it was historical fiction, when it arrived it said it was a biography. So I thought ok but even as I was reading it I wasn't sure if it was a novel or a biography, it definitely reads like a novel.
I guess I didn't know much about Josephine when I started this book but I always thought that Napoleon & Josephine had this great love story but according to this book that’s not the case.
It was ok it did read like a novel at first then got a bit boring towards the end where I just wanted it to be over. ( )
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There was a stillness in the heavy, humid air, and smoke from the cooking fires rose slowly straight upward into the cloudy sky a long way before drifting off sharply to the north.
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But Josephine's children and grandchildren remembered her with great fondness, as did all those who had known her and served her, and in the little church of Rueil, where so many had gathered to remember her on that June day, Hortense and Eugene put up a monument to their mother, a sculpted image of her as she was in her prime, with sweet, timid features and hands clasped in an attitude of hope.
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When, in 1804, Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband Napoleon to receive the imperial diadem, few in the vast crowd of onlookers were aware of the dark secrets hidden behind the imperial facade. To her subjects, she appeared to be the most favored woman in France: alluring, wealthy, and with the devoted love of a remarkable husband who was the conqueror of Europe. In actuality, Josephine's life was far darker: her celebrated allure was fading, her wealth was compromised by massive debt, and her marriage was corroded by infidelity and abuse. Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age-an era of revolution and social upheaval, frenzied hedonism and the guillotine. With telling psychological depth, Erickson brings the complex, charming, ever resilient Josephine to life, carrying us from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.
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