This is the biography of one of the most remarkable and amazing women in history. Josephine de Beauharnais was born on 23 June 1763, in the West Indies on the Island of Martinique. She is said to have been a Creole, a term that often but not always implies a person of mixed race. Yet, from this humble origin, Josephine became the first Empress of the French. Through her daughter, Hortense, she was the maternal grandmother of Napoleon III. Through her son, Eugene, she was the great-grandmother of later Swedish and Danish ...
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This is the biography of one of the most remarkable and amazing women in history. Josephine de Beauharnais was born on 23 June 1763, in the West Indies on the Island of Martinique. She is said to have been a Creole, a term that often but not always implies a person of mixed race. Yet, from this humble origin, Josephine became the first Empress of the French. Through her daughter, Hortense, she was the maternal grandmother of Napoleon III. Through her son, Eugene, she was the great-grandmother of later Swedish and Danish kings and queens, as well as the last Queen of Greece. The current reigning houses of Belgium, Norway and Luxembourg descend from her. All of these things happened because Josephine met a lowly and seemingly unimportant corporal named Napoleon."
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Translated by Denise Folliot. 506 pages. Jacket has light edgewear, faint ink notation on back, price clipped. Pages are clean, text unmarked, binding is tight.
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Very good(+) in very good jacket. Translated by Denise Folliot. Frontispiece illustrated in black and white. vi, 506 pages. 8vo, purple cloth, d.w. (tear at head, minor edgewear). New York: Harper & Row, (1967). First American Edition. Some toning at outer edges of text block. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Book and dustwrapper very lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, dustwrapper price clipped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
