Josephine

"I awake filled with you. . . Amazing indeed, sweet and incomparable Josephine, is the effect that you have wrought within my heart."

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

The Empress Josephine at Malmaison.Painting by Francois Gerard. Chateau de Malmaison, Paris (Bridgeman Art Library).

First wife of Napoleon, Josephine was six years older than her husband. Here she is thirty-three. This painting is taken from Robert Laffont's 1997 L'album de l'Empereur., a book of Max Gallo's work.

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