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|title=Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon

|author=Kate Williams

|publisher=Arrow

|date=June 2014

|website=https://sites.google.com/site/kwilliamsauthor/

|summary=The biography of Josephine, born on Martinique, the often-overlooked woman who married Napoleon Bonaparte and became Empress of France.

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Until reading this biography, it had never really occurred to me just how shadowy a figure the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the best-known European rulers of the age, really was. It may be common knowledge that her name was Josephine, but few of us perhaps really know anything of the woman behind the name.