Napoleon: His Wives and Women
- ISBN-10
- 0393052028
- ISBN-13
- 9780393052022
- Series
- Napoleon
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 381
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Christopher Hibbert
Description
Profiles the women who were the lovers of Napoleon and whose lives reflected the political and social upheavals of post-Revolutionary France, including Martinique Creole Josephine, Austria native Marie-Louise, and Polish countess Marie Walewska. 13,000 first printing.
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