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Product Description: Josephine de Beauharnais began as a kept woman of Paris and became the most powerful woman in France. She was no beauty, her teeth were rotten, and she was six years older than her husband, but one twitch of her skirt could bring running the man who terrorized Europe...read more
By Corrie James (narrator)

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9781494502522 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 4, 2014), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Josephine de Beauharnais began as a kept woman of Paris and became the most powerful woman in France.
9781494552527 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 4, 2014), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Josephine de Beauharnais began as a kept woman of Paris and became the most powerful woman in France.

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Product Description: Josephine de Beauharnais began as a kept woman of Paris and became the most powerful woman in France. She was no beauty, her teeth were rotten, and she was six years older than her husband, but one twitch of her skirt could bring running the man who terrorized Europe...read more
By Corrie James (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781494532529 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, November 4, 2014), cover price $83.99 | About this edition: Josephine de Beauharnais began as a kept woman of Paris and became the most powerful woman in France.

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Product Description: From 1853 to 1870 Eugenie de Montijo was the world's most powerful woman. Empress of the French, she shared the Second Empire with her husband, Napoleon III, so impressing the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck that he called her 'the only man in Paris'...read more

Hardcover:

9780750929790 | Sutton Pub Ltd, March 1, 2004, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9780750929806 | Trafalgar Square, January 30, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From 1853 to 1870 Eugenie de Montijo was the world's most powerful woman.

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An evocative portrait of Josephine Beauharnais, the young widow who caught the eye of Corsican general Napoleon Bonaparte and who became his wife, hostess, political advisor, confidante, and lover, is set against the turbulent backdrop of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Europe. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780802117700 | Grove Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: An evocative portrait of Josephine Beauharnais, the young widow who caught the eye of Corsican general Napoleon Bonaparte and who became his wife, hostess, political advisor, confidante, and lover, is set against the turbulent backdrop of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe.

Paperback:

9780802142023 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, June 9, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An evocative portrait of Josephine Beauharnais, the young widow who caught the eye of Corsican general Napoleon Bonaparte and who became his wife, hostess, political advisor, confidante, and lover, is set against the turbulent backdrop of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Europe.

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A biography of Napoleon's much envied and ultimately tragic wife traces her origins on the island of Martinique to her crowning as Empress in 1804 and subsequent fall from grace

Hardcover:

9780312200015 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A biography of Napoleon's much envied and ultimately tragic wife traces her origins on the island of Martinique to her crowning as Empress in 1804 and subsequent fall from grace

Paperback:

9781861056375 | New edition (Gardners Books, May 21, 2004), cover price $15.45 | About this edition: Carolly Erickson brings to life the complex, charming, ever-resilient Josephine, from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.

Miscellaneous:

9781429904018 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, April 1, 2007), cover price $9.99

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786117611 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 2000), cover price $62.95 | About this edition: When in 1804, Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband Napoleon to receive the imperial diadem, few in the vast crowd of onlookers were aware of the dark secrets behind the imperial facade.

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An anecdotal, illustrated biography of NapolTon Bonaparte's exotic empress discusses NapolTon's dependence on her sense of style to set the tone of his empire, her patronage of the arts, and significant events in her life. (view table of contents)

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9780810912298 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An anecdotal, illustrated biography of Napoleon Bonaparte's exotic empress discusses Napoleon's dependence on her sense of style to set the tone of his empire, her patrongage of the arts, and significant events in her life.

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Describes Napoleon's second marriage to Hapsburg Archduchess Marie Louise, a political and diplomatic maneuver that grew into a genuine love match, detailing the birth of Napoleon's only son, her loyalty to him during the fall of Paris, and her later role as sovereign of Parma. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780312280086 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, July 1, 2001), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Describes Napoleon's second marriage to Hapsburg Archduchess Marie Louise, detailing the birth of Napoleon's only son, her loyalty to him during the fall of Paris, and her later role as sovereign of Parma.

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Product Description: Provides a colorful richly textured dual portrait of the flamboyant French emperor, his sensual Creole wife, and the turbulent social, political, and cultural world in which Napoleon and Josephine lived. Reprint. NYT. PW. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780806522616 | Citadel Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Provides a colorful richly textured dual portrait of the flamboyant French emperor, his sensual Creole wife, and the turbulent social, political, and cultural world in which Napoleon and Josephine lived.
9781575660561 | Kensington Pub Corp, July 1, 1996, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A dual portrait of two flamboyant figures illuminates their personal lives and the social context in which they lived

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Carefully researched by an authority on French history, a dual portrait of two intriguing, flamboyant figures illuminates their personal lives, the social and cultural context in which they lived, and the reversal of roles in their marriage. 20,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780025178106 | Lisa Drew Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: A dual portrait of two flamboyant figures illuminates their personal lives and the social context in which they lived.

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Portrays the intriguing, tempestuous, and touching relationship between General Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife, the Empress Josephine

Hardcover:

9780312051358 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Portrays the intriguing, tempestuous, and touching relationship between General Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife, the Empress Josephine

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