Desiree

"You have made my life a misery, and I am yet weak enough to forgive you."

-Desiree in a letter to Napoleon after learning of his marriage to Josephine.

Hopkins, Tighe.Women Napoleon Loved. Eveleigh Nash, 1910.

Max Gallo painted this portrait of Desiree, taken from L'album de Lempereur and edited by Robert Laffont in 1997.

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