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The Empress Joséphine De Beauharnais
(Joséphine de Beauharnais Biography, 2015) The Empress Joséphine had several lovers, both militant and political, before General Napoleon Bonaparte. It was known that both Napoleon and Joséphine got married as a way to advance their political status, but nonetheless cared for each other. This was shown through the love letters he sent her up until her death; some of which can be accessed today. Members in Napoleon’s family were not convinced of Joséphine, and it explains the quote in the novel The Passion, “the giantess laughed and said that Josephine would never be crowned in Westminster as Bonaparte had promised.” (p.14) because no one was convinced she was right for him. Knowing that Joséphine married to gain social status and upon further
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