by Andre Castelot · Hugendubel · tapa dura · ISBN 9783720521529
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«Wunderbare Josephine» is the biography of Joséphine de Beauharnais written by André Castelot, published in hardback by Hugendubel (404 pages, in German).
The work reconstructs the life of Joséphine de Beauharnais, from her youth in Martinique to her role as Empress of France. It recounts her marriage to Napoleon in 1796, the influence she exerted at court, her personal weaknesses and the divorce of 1809, as well as the affection Bonaparte held for her until the end.
German translation by Brigitte Kahr of the French original 'Josephine' (1965); this German edition appeared in 2000.
For those interested in Napoleonic history and in biographies of influential women in nineteenth-century Europe.
André Castelot, born André Storms, was a French writer and scriptwriter born in Belgium. He was the son of the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas and Gabrielle Storms-Castelot, and the brother of the film actor Jacques Castelot. He wrote more than one hundred books, mostly biographies of famous people.
