Relationship of Napoleon and Josephine

Marie-Joseph-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie was born June 23, 1763, on the island of Martinique, to a lower-middle-class Creole planter family. As a child, she was nicknamed Yeyette. She was very conscious that they had little compared to other planter families, and she could get no sense of security from her parents, who were not on good terms. At age ten she was sent to the convent school of the Dames de la Providence at Fort-Royal for an education, which amounted to an acquaintance with the practical side of the fine arts and an elementary-school knowledge of the three RÆs (Cole 20). She was married to Alexandre, the chevalier de Beauharnais, in Paris in December 1779. It was an arranged marriage--he had wanted to marry one of her younger sisters instead of her--and it was problematic from the very beginning.

Alexandre frequented the salons of pre-Revolutionary Paris, but he left Marie-Rose, as she was now called, home, because he was mortified by her lack of hi

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116). Napoleon soon became the commanding general himself, and when he ordered all weapons to be rounded up and destroyed, Marie-RoseÆs 14-year-old son Eugene went directly to Napoleon and begged for permission to keep his fatherÆs sword. Napoleon, who had a high regard for loyalty and courage, liked the boy and handed the sword to him himself. A few days later, Marie-Rose called on him to thank him, and, according to Cole (119), Napoleon instantaneously fell head over heels in love with her and became a tempestuous suitor for her hand. Some believe he married her believing her to be wealthy, but his letters seem to prove that he was genuinely in love with her. She also complemented him: she had become the model of social grace, whereas he had always been the awkward antisocial outsider. She would enable him to rise in society along pathways he could not have treaded by himself. Marie-rose did not love him Cole (127) says, but she was fascinated by his character and warmed by his devotion. In February 1796 she agreed to marry him, and the purely civil ceremony was held in a town hall in March. Because Napoleon was already engaged in the military campaigns that would spread and spread until he had ravaged almost all of Europ
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