Napoleon's Heart: The Emperor and His Women

Napoleon’s hidden path features women, including wives, mistresses, and lovers, who shaped his life and politics, revealing a passionate, ambitious emperor through romance, intrigue, and historical legacy.

Along the sensational path that Napoleon carved for himself through history runs another, more hidden trail. Upon it stand the women who accompanied the emperor for part of the way, on the margins of his extraordinary life.

Most legendary is Joséphine de Beauharnais, his first wife and the...