joséphine in A Sentence

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    Joséphine” wasn't actually named that.

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    France the Army the Head of the Army Joséphine.

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    For Joséphine's part, she was very keen on the idea.

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    Napoleon is famously supposed to have written Joséphine,“I am coming home.

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    And, unfortunately for both of them, Joséphine died suddenly not long after.

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    Of course, as noted, this didn't stop Napoleon and Joséphine from incessantly writing to one another.

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    Joséphine, as always, was accommodating, writing,“But[Marie] rejected this proposal with such manifest dissatisfaction, that it was not renewed.

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    A favorite getaway for the Imperial couple, Malmaison was renovated and expanded quite a bit by Joséphine(her bedchamber is pictured above).

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    Before Napoleon, she always went by Rose, but he disliked that name and began calling her Joséphine, a slight variant of“Josèphe”.

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    When Joséphine found out(after having been sent away for political reasons during the birth and announcement), she wrote Napoleon this amazingly touching letter:.

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    When his son was around two, he also began secretly allowing Joséphine to see the boy so she could get to know him.

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    So the common rumor that this was an intentional slight at Joséphine is probably incorrect, even if Napoleon's sisters perhaps enjoyed it either way.

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    Unfortunately for Joséphine, she was unable to get pregnant, which was a big problem for Napoleon who, as he so aptly put, needed an heir.

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    Later when Napoleon was banished to Elba, this put Joséphine in a somewhat precarious political position of still being an unapologetic Napoleon supporter and former wife of the emperor.

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    However, despite while married he and Joséphine having had affairs(including some in which he sired offspring) and him casting her aside, he apparently never lost his affection for his first wife, nor she for him.

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    As for his wife, Joséphine's helpers were none other than Napoleon's sisters, Elisa, Pauline and Caroline- a task they loathed given their dislike of Joséphine, rumored to be because of resenting her grace and sophistication.

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    In fact, reportedly unlike many other correspondence, Napoleon nearly always immediately stopped whatever he was doing to tear open any letter from Joséphine immediately upon receiving it, even occasionally interrupting meetings while campaigning to do so.

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    That said, it is noted that after being crowned, Joséphine attempted to ascend to her throne only to almost fall over backwards when her helpers forwent their duty and remained at the bottom of the steps.

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    Upon arriving in the cathedral to thundering applause, the sound of a several hundred person choir, and yet more cannon fire, Napoleon and Joséphine then donned giant, impossibly fuzzy ermine-lined pimp capes weighing some 80 pounds each.

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    As you might imagine, this was much to the chagrin of his very jealous second wife, Marie Louise, who no doubt was well aware that she was only around instead of Joséphine because of her baby making abilities.

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    Well apparently Raguineau had once advised Napoleon's wife, Joséphine, not to marry Napoleon as he was a man“who has nothing but a cape and a sword”- a statement Napoleon had evidently taken great offence to and wanted to take the chance to bring up one last time before being crowned the most powerful man in all of France and, indeed, one of the most powerful men in the world.

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