In 1795, 26-year-old Napoleon met Josephine, a 32-year-old widow with two children. After only three months of acquaintance, they had a wedding. Shortly after her marriage, Josephine had secret meetings with other men behind Napoleon's back.
Josephine Boarnet was born in Martinique in what was then the French West Indies.
She is not an ordinary woman, with her beauty, intelligence and excellent communication skills, she has become a famous woman in Parisian social circles, a legendary woman.
Josephine was 6 years older than Napoleon, and when the two met, Josephine was already a mother of two and a widow.
At that time, Napoleon was not yet famous and not rich. He had just returned from a war outside, and his only regret when he returned from the war was scabies.
In order to prevent ringworm on his head, he shaved his head, but Josephine fell in love with Napoleon's potential stock at a glance.
She sent her 12-year-old son to see Napoleon, and Josephine's 12-year-old son complied with her and asked Napoleon to return his father's sword confiscated by the soldiers.
Napoleon granted the child's request, and the child tearfully took the sword and kissed the relic.
The next day, Josephine came to thank Napoleon and poured out her affection.
Josephine's beauty, purity and kindness also deeply touched Napoleon.
Three months after their acquaintance, on March 9, 1796, Napoleon married Josephine.
After the marriage, Napoleon was ordered to command the Italian army to free itself from Austrian rule, leaving Josephine alone in Paris.
Napoleon on the expedition missed his "goddess in his heart" very much. he
Every day lying in the trenches he wrote to his beloved wife: "You have filled my whole body and mind with love for you, and this love has taken away my reason—I will leave the army, run back to Paris, and fall at your feet." ”
"I haven't been looking at your picture for a moment, not a moment when I don't have my kisses printed on your picture."
Napoleon kept writing letters, one a day, and asked Josephine to come and meet him. However, the "endless lovesickness and all kinds of love" he sent out was lost in the sea, and there was no return.
Josephine always refused, and rarely replied. In his letter, Napoleon pleaded: "You know how much joy your letter can bring me, but you refuse to write six lines to me... I fidget without your letter. ”
At this time, Josephine, who could not bear the loneliness, was secretly dating a man named Charles.
Not long after, Napoleon heard that his new wife Josephine was having an affair in Paris. In the letter, he wrote bitterly: "You have promised me tender and faithful love, what kind of affection has it suffocated and excluded? So that you don't have time to care a little about your husband? My beloved, I beg you to write to me immediately, a letter full of tenderness and sweetness..." Yet Josephine continued to go her own way and take her word as she did.
It was not until Napoleon returned home from his conquest that Josephine hurried to greet him, but passed by because he had taken the wrong path. When Josephine returned home, Napoleon refused to meet her instead of "holding her tightly in his arms and kissing her as passionately as the blazing sun under the equator."
Napoleon forgave her after repeated pleas from Josephine's son (born to her ex-husband) and tearful reviews in her own eyes.
In May 1804, Napoleon was proclaimed the first emperor of the French Empire, and Josephine became empress.
After that, Josephine took care of Napoleon wholeheartedly and withdrew from her flower world.
Napoleon was once assassinated on the way to the opera house, and the gunpowder exploded between the two carriages of the emperor and empress, and the emperor's carriage did not notice that it went first, and the queen's horse stopped in fright.
Josephine, who fortunately escaped her life, turned pale, and the female officer in the car asked her if she wanted to go back, but she refused, "Bonaparte is gone, how can I let him go alone?" ”
At this time, Josephine loved Napoleon with all her heart, and even though she knew that there was gunpowder in front of her, she still did not hesitate to live and die with her husband Napoleon.
However, Napoleon and Josephine never had children, and for the sake of the development of the country, Napoleon divorced Josephine on January 10, 1809. But Napoleon gave Josephine a series of preferential treatment and retained her empress.
At this time, Josephine was already divorced for the second time, and after divorcing Napoleon, Josephine had been depressed, and the once bright and beautiful Josephine became desperate for the world after encountering two failed loves.
Five years after her divorce from Napoleon, on May 29, 1814, Josephine died with regret at the age of 51.
Seven years later, on May 5, 1821, Napoleon, who was not yet 52 years old, died of illness on St. Helena. Napoleon was still shouting "Josephine! ”
