The Emperor Napoleon and Empress Josephine Bonaparte

"What! Marry a general who has nothing but his cloak and sword! Why, he lives in a den or a hovel, doesn't he?"

Josephine's lawyer critisizing her decision to marry Napoleon.

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

Painting by Max Gallo in Robert Laffont's L'Albume de l'Empereur, edited 1997.

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