Ambition and desire : the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte / Kate Williams.
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780345522832
- 944.05092 B 23
- DC216.1 .W44 2015
- BIO006000 | HIS013000 | HIS037050
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Originally published under the title Josephine: desire, ambition, Napoleon in the United Kingdom by Hutchinson, a member of The Random House Group Limited, London, in 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue -- La Pagerie -- Sophistication -- "Beneath all the sluts in the world" -- Revolution -- "The height of good manners to be ruined" -- "What strange power you have over my heart" -- "The single object in my heart" -- A million kisses -- "I am so distressed at being separated from him" -- "All I have suffered" -- "He owes me everything" -- "The most beautiful thing in the world" -- Scenes with Bonaparte -- "My stepfather Is a comet" -- "Your imperial majesty" -- "The king of diamonds" -- "I have fulfilled my destiny" -- "I wish you would be more reasonable" -- "Cold and often embarrassed" -- "Like a wounded soldier" -- "More full of charm" -- Epilogue.
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