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Becoming Josephine

Becoming Josephine

Author(s): Heather Webb

Location(s): Martinique, Paris

Era(s): 18th Century

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Rose Tascher is brought up in Martinique. At 15, she is married off to a Parisian aristocrat, who cannot stand her or her provincial ways. She divorces him, the French Revolution comes and her place, as Josephine, consort to Napoleon Bonaparter, is history.

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BECOMING JOSEPHINE moves along with a quick pace and vivid descriptions of people and places, so evocative of locale – Justizius –

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