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The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise
The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise
The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise
Carolly Erickson
The bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette and The Last Wife of Henry VIII returns with an enchanting novel about the ambitious, amoral, vulnerable woman who became the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.Fashion icon, leader of France's society in the turbulent years of the guillotine and the bloody Napoleonic Wars, the alluring Josephine was a tough survivor―yet she also had a gentle, haunting quality that made her irresistible to her contemporaries, especially to the mysterious, compelling stranger from Martinique who captured her heart.
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Genre: 

  • Historical Fiction
  • Romance

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise review by MSch
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MSch

Everyone knows about Napoleon, the guy who wanted to take over the world and conquer everything. Well, what do people know about his first wife, Josephine? Not much, really. She's always in the wings; no one ever thinks about her and her past. When Josephine was a girl, her name was Rose. It actually was Rose until she married Napoleon - he changed it because she needed to sound more French. Rose lived in a tropical paradise, moving to Paris when she was a teenager to marry her cousin. Eventually, her husband dies in "The Terror," with Rose narrowly escaping the guillotine.

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