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Joséphine is Napoleon Bonaparte’s first wife and sometime empress—until he annuls their marriage for her failure to produce children. Formerly Joséphine de Beauharnais, she was married once before Napoleon, but her aristocrat husband was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution while Joséphine herself was imprisoned. A self-possessed, clever woman and excellent billiard player, Joséphine becomes a noted botanist after the end of her marriage to Napoleon. French army deserter Henri writes to her while imprisoned in the Venetian insane asylum San Servelo, whose neglected garden he is trying to revive. She sends him back a kind letter with a variety of seeds enclosed.
Joséphine Quotes in The Passion
The The Passion quotes below are all either spoken by Joséphine or refer to Joséphine. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1: The Emperor
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I wrote about her or tried to. She eluded me the way the tarts in Boulogne had eluded me. I decided to write about Napoleon instead.
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Joséphine Quotes in The Passion
The The Passion quotes below are all either spoken by Joséphine or refer to Joséphine. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part 1: The Emperor
Quotes
I wrote about her or tried to. She eluded me the way the tarts in Boulogne had eluded me. I decided to write about Napoleon instead.
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