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Josephine de Beauharnais met General Napoléon Bonaparte, who was six years younger than she, in 1795 and became his mistress. In a letter to her in December, he wrote, "I awake full of you. Your image and the memory of last night’s intoxicating pleasures has left no rest to my senses."
Until meeting Bonaparte, she had always been known by the name of Rose, but Bonaparte preferred to call her Joséphine, the name she adopted from then on. Two days after their wedding in March of 1796, Bonaparte left to lead the French army in Italy.
Become the true love of Napoleon's life and wait for his return in this historical French costume of Josephine. Includes: Dress with gold trim and velvet side panels, and matching choker.
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