Empress Josephine (Annotated)

Empress Josephine is a historical romance that dramatizes the life of Joséphine de Beauharnais, from the volatile aftermath of the French Revolution to the glittering yet precarious court of Napoleon Bonaparte. L. Mühlbach blends biographical fact with melodramatic intensity, emphasizing courtly spectacle, private sorrow, and the political uses of marriage. Written in the nineteenth-century tradit...