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Nov 20, 2023 · While it’s true that the French leader’s countless letters to Joséphine overflow with intense declarations of infatuated love, their relationship was marred by frequent adultery and their...
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Nov 30, 2023 · The movie goes deep into their love story: his letters, her affairs, his affairs, and ultimately their very strange divorce ceremony, necessary because Josephine — six years older than...
Mar 1, 2024 · A depiction of Napoleon, right, revealing his intention to divorce Empress Josephine in 1809. Once Napoleon was crowned emperor in 1804, he also grew more impatient with her infertility.
Dec 12, 2009 · Napoleon went off to lead the Army of Italy in a brilliantly successful campaign, while Josephine failed to answer his love letters, had at least one love affair and ran up colossal debts. As her husband rose to fame and power Josephine began using her contacts to forward his interests.
Joséphine caught Napoleon in the bedroom of her lady-in-waiting, Élisabeth de Vaudey, and Napoleon threatened to divorce her as she had not produced an heir since he felt pressured from his family to do so. Eventually, however, through the efforts of her daughter Hortense, the two were reconciled.
Nov 21, 2023 · Josephine was unable to give him one. One of her maids, Mademoiselle Avrillion, wrote an account of how, in the period leading up to their divorce, the couple had become less close. But...
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The annulment on 15 December, 1809, of the civil marriage of Napoleon and Josephine was the first stage in the process that has become known as the “divorce”. Napoleon and Josephine both gave speeches announcing the end of their marriage, and a sénatus-consulte was drawn up by Cambacérès and a privy council. This sénatus-consulte was ...
