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	Josephine
		Josephine was as fond of display as Cleopatra, but she was less able than Catherine II, yet the conduct of an Empire never fell to her lot.
		Josephine was married to the Viscount Alexander de Beauharnais, son of a poor Marquis, at Noisy-le-Grand, December 13, 1779.
		Bonaparte was looked on by the multitude as a true magician, and his wife, with her grace and finery, took on much of his majesty.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles35/famous-women-16.shtml (6801 words)

	Royalty.nu - Empress Josephine of France, Wife of Napoleon I
		Josephine: A Life of the Empress by Carolly Erickson.
		Josephine: Napoleon's Incomparable Empress by Eleanor P. Delorme.
		The romance between Josephine de Beauharnais and Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the most dramatic in history.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/France/Bonaparte/Josephine.html (533 words)

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		Josephine also remarked that Bonaparte's countenance was paler that day than usual, and that he was less communicative and less disposed to chat with her; but she had already learned that it was not advisable to question him as to the cause of his different moods.
		Josephine was opposed to this project; she loved Bonaparte enough to fear the dangers that a usurpation of the crown must bring with it, and she had so little ambition as to prefer her present brilliant and peaceful lot to the proud but perilous exaltation to a throne.
		Josephine had wedded Hortense to her brother-in-law in order to secure in him an ally in the family, and to keep her daughter by her side; and now that daughter was made the target of insidious attacks and malicious calumnies--now another plan was adopted in order to remove Hortense from the scene.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/12019/12019-8.txt (17760 words)

	Josephine : Josephine Beauharnais : Josephine Bonaparte : Napoleon Bonaparte : Love : Wife : Mistress
		A socialite without equal, Josephine was mistress to several leading political figures and left a young General Napoleon Bonaparte completely smitten on their first meeting.
		They married in 1796 and while Bonaparte was a fine stepfather to her children, Josephine had regular dalliances with other men, in particular Hippolyte Charles - a dashing young officer who may have been her only true love.
		Her affairs almost led to divorce, however, a furious Bonaparte was persuaded to ignore her indiscretions on the grounds a stable marriage was necessary for his political ambitions.
	www.napoleonguide.com /josephine.htm (398 words)

	NAPOLEON
		JOSEPHINE I know, it's tragic, but there it is. A promise is a promise, and I promised Fortuné that if ever I found freedom, he should have the privilege of sleeping on my bed for the rest of his life.
		Bonaparte reaches the western bridgehead, but as he starts to cross, a canon ball kills his horse beneath him and he is flung into the fl swamp.
		Bonaparte is wearing a magnificent deep blue coat, trimmed with embroidered gold, with a high red collar and the flag of the Republic tied in a sash around his waist.
	www.jmbarrie.co.uk /napoleon-script/NAPOLEON3.htm (4663 words)

	Author Sandra Gulland’s Magnificent Obsession: Josephine Bonapart
		Josephine was absolutely devoted to him, and he was madly in love with her.
		Her thick, meticulously footnoted timeline detailing Josephine’s daily movements, and those of her family and friends: plus social issues, battles and even the flue viruses that plagued the population of Paris at the time, has to be seen to be believed.
		She travelled to Martinique, where Josephine was born and raised, attended mass in her church, went to the health spa she frequented, tried the treatments, visited museum exhibits in New York and Memphis and consulted with period scholars.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/women_following_dreams/101521 (1184 words)

	Chrysalis Books - Josephine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 behind the imperial facade.
		In actuality Josephine’s life was far darker, for 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, of the guillotine and frenzied hedonism.
	www.papertiger.co.uk /book/1861056370 (289 words)

	Josephine de Beauharnais - FREE Josephine de Beauharnais Biography \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		Josephine de Beauharnais - FREE Josephine de Beauharnais Biography
		Josephine was rushed to hospital during a holiday in Austria and Amy was born by Caesarean section two weeks Read more
		Daughter of Josephine and Alexandre, viscount de Beauharnais, and stepdaughter of Napoleon...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-BeauhrnJ.html (711 words)

	Interviews: Sandra Gulland
		Josephine was absolutely devoted to him, and he was madly in love with her.
		Her thick, meticulously footnoted timeline detailing Josephine's daily movements, and those of her family and friends: plus social issues, battles and even the flue viruses that plagued the population of Paris at the time, has to be seen to be believed.
		She travelled to Martinique, where Josephine was born and raised, attended mass in her church, went to the health spa she frequented, tried the treatments, visited museum exhibits in New York and Memphis and consulted with period scholars.
	www.copperfieldreview.com /interviews/gulland.htm (1119 words)

	napoleon.HTM
		Bonaparte was impressed by the lad's devotion to his father's memory and immediately returned the cherished sword.
		Josephine's infidelities in Paris, while her husband was engaged in heroic military feats in Italy, was acceptable behavior in her fashionable social circle.
		Josephine spent half of 1796 and most of 1797 in Italy, staying in Milan and other cities where she was safe from the Austrians.
	www.oldnewspublishing.com /napoleon.htm (2836 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| The intolerable absence of Joséphine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bonaparte refused at first, alleging the harshness of the Egyptian summer, but the lady argued that her Creole origins were an invaluable asset under the circumstances, and would exempt her from suffering heat strokes.
		She is said to have been brave, generous and very popular with the soldiers who loved and respected her; she did not fear to criticise Bonaparte and, when he forced surgeon Boyer to parade dressed in women's clothes for having failed to attend his plague-stricken patients, she expressed her indignation in no uncertain terms.
		Bonaparte, disturbed by the rumours of Josephine's infidelities, easily succumbed to her charms, writes Bret.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1998/384/feature.htm (2148 words)

	Powell's Books - The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine by Andrea Stuart
		Josephine Bonaparte was one of the most remarkable women of the modern era.
		Using diaries and letters, Stuart expertly re-creates Josephine's whirlwind of a life that began with an isolated Caribbean childhood and led to a marriage that would usher her onto the world stage and crown her empress of France.
		She managed to be in the forefront of every important episode of her era's turbulent history: from the rise of the West Indian slave plantations that bankrolled Europe's rapid economic development, to the decaying of the ancien regime, to the Revolution itself from which she barely escaped the guillotine.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-9780802117700-3 (801 words)

	Goodreads \| The Josephine Bonaparte Collection: The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., Tales of Passion, ...
		The books are written in the fashion of Josephine's own diary entries, from her life as a teenager in Martinique, before she comes to Paris to marry, to the end of her marriage with Napoleon, including the time she spent in prison during the days of the Terror.
		It brought the personality of Josephine to life for me. This was someone who used her position, even though it was quite limited, to help those who were less fortunate than she.
		One could almost say that Josephine helped to neutralize Bonaparte's arrogance, and that the end of his marriage to her signalled the beginning of the end for him.
	www.goodreads.com /book/show/70288 (2481 words)

	Simon & Schuster: Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe (eBook) - Read an Excerpt
		Bonaparte is in a meeting in the study, and I'm back in my dressing room, seeking solace.
		Bonaparte was perched on the edge of a puce Louis XV armchair, holding a teacup and expounding on the uselessness of girls learning Latin.
		Bonaparte emptied his teacup and put the cup and saucer on the side table between us.
	www.simonsays.com /content/book.cfm?pid=479906&tab=1&agid=2 (2284 words)

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		This meeting of Eugene and General Bonaparte was the commencement of the acquaintanceship between Bonaparte and Josephine.
		In the front courtyard of the Luxembourg, the palace occupied by the _Corps Legislatif_, was erected a vast amphitheatre, in which sat all the high authorities of France; in the centre of the amphitheatre stood the altar of the country, surmounted by three gigantic statues, representing Freedom, Equality, and Peace.
		He then went to Josephine to inform her in person of the projected _fete_, and to say that he wished her to tell Hortense, who had been ailing for some time, that he particularly desired her to be present.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/12019/12019.txt (17785 words)

	Goodreads \| The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
		It begins during Josephine's childhood on the island of Martinico, and continues through her first marriage, the birth of her two children, and ends with her marriage to Bonaparte.
		However, the portrayal of Josephine's journey through the various ranks of society and the various roles she played is explicit enough to show the way it (supposedly) truly was.
		Written in the voice of Josephine after nearly a decade of research by the author, it is intensely captivating and is one of my all time favorite books- along with the two that follow it in the trilogy.
	www.goodreads.com /book/show/70287.The_Many_Lives_Secret_Sorrows_of_Josephine_B_ (2650 words)

	Josephine -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		As the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine became empress of the French in 1804.
		Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie was born on June 23, 1763, in Martinique, in the French West Indies.
		A vibrant personality who lived her life as passionately as she performed on stage, Josephine Baker, the first diva of modern popular dance whose productions bristled with sexuality and physical exuberance as never before, captivated European audiences in the 1920s and 1930s and influenced generations of performers to travel to...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=9275187 (564 words)

	PBS VIDEOdatabase of America's History and Culture -- Chapters (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Back in the French army, Bonaparte rose quickly to the rank of Brigadier General as his aristocratic superiors fled the terrors of the Revolution.
		Two days after his marriage to Josephine, Bonaparte was back in the field, as Supreme Commander of all French Forces in Italy.
		Josephine, meanwhile, was keeping company with a young army officer in Paris.
	pbsvideodb.pbs.org /programs/all_chapters.asp?item_id=25827 (1116 words)

	Josephine - Research the news about Josephine - from HighBeam Research
		Josephine as patroness of the arts.(Empress of France's patronage civilized her husband's court)
		It was Josephine who, by her patrician heritage and courtly manners, attracted...1801, they brought to the official residences in which Josephine lived the grander form of neoclassicism--the...
		Josephine In The Revolution - Imprisoned At...Existence - Marriage With Bonaparte When Josephine returned to Paris in 1790, she found...softened the Viscount's heart towards Josephine, and when she returned he went to...
	www.highbeam.com /search.aspx?q=Josephine&ref_id=ency_MALT (1150 words)

	Napoleon and dJosephine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Napoleon was desperately in love with Josephine, widowed when her husband, General de Beauharnais, was sent to the guillotine during the reign of terror.
		On the island of Martinique there proudly stands a statue of Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, a native of that West Indies island, who through the military and political genius of her second husband, Napoleon Bonaparte, became the Empress of France.
		Josephine was vivacious, witty, charming, beautiful, intelligent but with little education, wildly extravagant and loved by Napoleon.
	www.sculpturegallery.com /sculpture/napoleon_and_josephine.html (137 words)

	Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews: The last great dance on earth
		Josephine Bonaparte was a figure I really had no prior knowledge of, but I found my self riveted with the accounts of her life.
		Josephine's heartbreak leading upto, not to mention after her divorce from Nepoleon was so well written by Sandra Gulland, I found my own heart breaking for her.
		There is unremitting intrigue in the court until Josephine agrees to step aside in order that Napolean may divorce her and re-marry, in hopes of fathering a son.
	www.amazon.ca /review/product/0006485626?showViewpoints=1 (1398 words)

	Simon & Schuster: The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B: A Novel (Trade Paperback) - Reading Guide
		Soon after, Josephine is sent to Paris to marry Alexandre de Beauharnais, and there her fortune unfolds.
		Josephine also pays a great deal of attention to intricacies and rituals of dressing, dances, and codes of social behavior.
		Josephine writes in her diary when she goes back to Martinique, "Only I have changed, thinner, dressed in elegant silk and lace, wearing a bonnet that hid the sadness in my eyes....I remember so clearly the first time I saw Alexandre, a handsome young man reading Cicero's Treatise on Laws.
	www.simonsays.com /content/book.cfm?pid=409588&tab=1&agid=10 (1146 words)

	SBPL Book Review
		In that episode Josephine has a rotting tooth extracted and replaced immediately with a bloody tooth pulled out of the mouth of a peasant girl.
		Josephine is still baffled by her new husband's ardor and singular love, for she cannot love him.
		Napoleon's mother calls her the "the old one" and "the old woman" for Josephine is six years older than Bonaparte and his mother does not believe she could give him the son he wants so desperately although Josephine has already had two children.
	www.cyberg8t.com /~sbpl/jan_20_02.html (782 words)

	Powell's Books - The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise by Carolly Erickson
		Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, Josephine had an exotic Creole appeal that would ultimately propel her to reign over an empire as wife of the most powerful man in the world.
		As Madame Bonaparte, Josephine's public life and private life alike are filled with controversy as she copes with the scrutiny of the public eye, the ire of Bonaparte's family, and Bonaparte himself, whose feelings for her range from codependency to contempt.
		Josephine, however, emerges a dynamic and complicated heroine, and holds her own before and after her short-lived marriage to Bonaparte.
	www.powells.com /biblio/9780312367350 (572 words)

	SBPL Book Review
		The Bonaparte clan, a group of pathetic losers, continues to plot against Josephine and to urge Napoleon to divorce her.
		By 1809 Napoleon realizes that divorce from Josephine and an alliance with a younger woman of royal blood is the only answer to his dreams for a Bonaparte succession.
		In contrast to Josephine, Marie-Louise betrayed Napoleon spiritually and abandoned her son, the King of Rome to the whims of Napoleon's enemies.
	sbpl.org /jan_27_02.html (927 words)

	Reading Group Choices
		Combining meticulously researched history and superb storytelling, the author provides an intimate look into the lives of the men and women behind the revolution and relates Josephine Bonaparteâs marvelous, perilous rise from an innocent girl to one of the most sophisticated and powerful women in history.
		Through her fictionalized diary entries, readers learn of the birth of her two children and the dissolution of her marriage due to her husbandâs indiscretions.
		She has been working on the Josephine novels for many years, traveling extensively to the places Josephine lived, learning to read French and corresponding with period scholars.
	readinggroupchoices.com /search/details.cfm?id=286 (547 words)

	What readers have to say about Josephine B.
		It was perfect: your writing style, the powerful words, the way you displayed Napoleon as a "whirlwind." I do believe that Josephine's true character is more like in your novels than in her biographies.
		In reading about Josephine, I came to admire her in a whole new way—she really came to life.
		I loved the diary form of writing - it was if Josephine were pouring out her heart for all of us to read.
	josephinebfanmail.blogspot.com (1484 words)

	Sandra Gulland \| Articles By Sandra Gulland
		Although little is known about how or why Rose changed her name to Josephine, most historians seem to agree that it was Napoleon who instigated it.
		For one thing, he addresses her by the name Josephine in his letters to her.
		At the start of the Consulate, she adopted Josephine Bonaparte, which the proclamation of Empire in May, 1804 reduced to the first name Josephine alone, by which she was enthroned Empress of the French and entered into posterity."
	www.sandragulland.com /articles/by_8.html (356 words)

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