The Emperors Darling Josephine De Beauharnais (2018)

Josephine de Beauharnais was Napoleon's Empress, his muse and his great love. It is next to impossible to imagine him without her or her without him.
She survived the death sentence of insurgency and a bomb attack. Her weapons were her razor-sharp mind, her good taste and her body. Josephine de Beauharnais held the love of one of the Europe' greatest Generals. Napoleon was the great destroyer of the old system of rule, the nefarious warrior whose campaigns resulted in the death of millions and devastations in various regions around Europe. As Emperor and legislator, he spearheaded an administrative reform that initiated a new order and she was his strongest ally. The beauty of the small noblewoman Josephine de Beauharnais from Martinique was legendary, her taste for splendor and luxury was famous, and she was notorious for her male acquaintances. Marie-Josephe-Rose de Tascher de La Pagerie would never have dreamed of a rise to the absolute top of French society in post-revolutionary France when her parents paired her up with the unloved Alexandre de Beauharnais. The marriage was unhappy, and yet her two children later married into European royalty.

– Original title: Napoleons verstoßene Liebe: Joséphine de Beauharnais