139: When Napoleon Bonaparte Met Joséphine de Beauharnais

139: When Napoleon Bonaparte Met Joséphine de Beauharnais

“I don’t love you an atom; on the contrary, I detest you. You are a good-for-nothing, very ungraceful, very tactless…You never write me; you don’t care for your husband,” wrote Napoleon Bonaparte to his wife, Josephine, in 1796. But at the end of the same letter? He wrote, “I hope soon I shall clasp you in my arms and cover you with a million kisses…”

That’s Napoleon and Joséphine – a constant push and pull, up and down relationship. Before they became the first Emperor and Empress of France, she called him “Puss in Boots” behind his back while he wrote her mushy love letters.

Many history buffs believe Joséphine never really loved Napoleon. Others think he was happy to kick her to the curb eventually. And then there’s that prevailing story that Napoleon asked Joséphine not to wash for three days…Kel thinks there was more to the story. Let’s find out…

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