Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte (54 page)

Josephine’s home, La Pagerie, as it is now (
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Alexandre de Beauharnais (
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Eugène de Beauharnais, Josephine’s only son. Napoleon made him viceroy of Italy. (
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Hortense as a child (
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Josephine visits her husband, Alexandre, at the prison in Luxembourg in 1794. Jean-Louis Victor Viger du Vigneau, 1867. (
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A letter from Napoleon to Josephine (
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Madame Thérésa Tallien. The glamorous heroine of the end of the Terror had three husbands, and ten children by various lovers. (
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Paul Barras—handsome, rich, debauched, and ruthless. By Louis Blanc. (
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Ci-devant Occupations! or Madame Tallien and the Empress Josephine Dancing Naked Before Barras in the Winter of 1797,
by James Gillray, 1805. Both ladies, the cartoon declares, were Barras’s “humble dependents.” (
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The first known portrait of Napoleon, by Andrea Appiani, 1797. He is twenty-eight. (
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The Three Graces,
by Antonio Canova, 1814 (
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General Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole
, by Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1801 (
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Empress Josephine,
by Robert Lefèvre, 1806 (
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