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Podcast: Significant Lovers
Episode: 139: When Napoleon Bonaparte Met Joséphine de Beauharnais
Description: âI donât love you an atom; on the contrary, I detest you. You are a good-for-nothing, very ungraceful, very tactlessâŠYou never write me; you donât care for your husband,â wrote Napoleon Bonaparte to his wife, Josephine, in 1796. But at the end of the same letter? He wrote, âI hope soon I shall clasp you in my arms and cover you with a million kissesâŠâ Thatâs Napoleon and JosĂ©phine â a constant push and pull, up and down relationship. Before they became the first Emperor and Empress of France, she called him âPuss in Bootsâ behind his back w...