JOSEPHINE, NAPOLEON'S EMPRESS

Author: C.S. Forester

Publisher: Methuen

Year published: 1925

Pagination: 246pp illustrations

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Green boards, no d/w. Fading on spine and front board. Previous owner name and date on endpaper. A biography of Napoleon's first Empress Josephine, born in Martinique of a poor but titled family. She was initially married to Alexandre de Beauharnais, becoming a prominent socialite. Her husband was guillotined during the reign of Terror. She later married Napoleon Bonaparte in a civil ceremony in 1796. There were no children from a very stormy marriage and Napoleon eventually arranged an annulment, Joséphine retreating to her private residence at Malmaison. She died there on May 29, 1814.