Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe

Women's Biographies

Author: Sandra Gulland

Set in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century, Jos�phine begins to awaken to the reality of her recent marriage to ‘the Corsican’ Napoleon Bonaparte, now General-in-Chief of the Army of Italy. Through Jos�phine’s diary entries and Napoleon’s impassioned – almost disturbing – love letters, an astonishing portrait of an ingenuous, compassionate woman emerges, set against….Read More

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