After hearing about her incredible early years, in Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe focuses on Josephine’s most well-known years. And although she has gained a sort of infamous reputation from her supposedly numerous affairs while Bonaparte was in Egypt, this is not the way Sandra Gulland portray...
Finishing the last fifty pages in a race to beat time before I had, really HAD this time to go to sleep, I found myself so wrapped up in the conclusion of this trilogy that, looking up from the last page, the light beside my bed startled me. I'd been expecting a wax candle and an inkstand, not a ...
Trilogy In which I very nearly dieJune 14, 1798—Plombières-les-Bains.A harrowing voyage, but I’m here at last in the charming mountain spa of Plombières-les-Bains—slate grey houses crammed into a narrow valley as if they had tumbled into a crevice and were too weary to rise. A beautiful setting, ...
My first morning prayer, my first breakfast (a roll, dried venison, a bowl of cow’s milk). My first nervous stomach, rushing to be at Madame’s before eight of the clock. Petite joined a crowd of attendants in the antechamber to Madame Henriette’s bedchamber. “Monsieur Philippe just left for the K...
I rapped several times, then pressed my ear against the planks. Not a sound. I put down my bags and rummaged for my big iron key to let myself in.The door creaked open. Mother was standing before me like some ghostly apparition, dressed in a tattered nightdress and cap, a counterpane comforter ha...