Josephine
Description:... "Born Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, in Martinique, she became Josephine, Queen of Italy and Empress of the French... This vivid, richly detailed biography reveals a contradictory woman in all her strengths and frailties, with all her charms and her greeds. Wildly extravagant with her person and her monies (even borrowing from Napoleon's generals while her husband was in battle), self-centered, opportunistic, an elusive mistress and a doting mother, she was so supremely resourceful that she was able to survive her divorce by the Emperor. He, in turn, was never able to forget her"--from jacket flaps.
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