The Josephine B. Trilogy
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(with a few comments)
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Wonderful.
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—Well-researched, fair, well-written.
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Pellapra, Emilie de, Comtesse
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Pichevin, R. L'Impératrice
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Ed. Blondel La Rougery; Paris; 1909. —Interesting
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Pingaud, Léonce. Un
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Reboux, Paul. La vie
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Knight and Millet; Boston; 1867. Reprinted by AMS, 1975.
Rémusat, Madame
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Vol. 1. P. F. Collier & Son; New York; 1879.
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A Selection from the Letters of Madame
de Remusat; to her husband and son, from 1804 to 1813.
Trans. by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and Mr. John Lillie. D. Appleton
and Co.; New York; 1881.
Rheinhardt, E.A. Josephine,
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Translated by Caroline
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Napoleon's Letters.
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Murat.
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Napoléon
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—Full of inaccuracies.
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The Wife
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but his violent hostility to Josephine and his delight in
scandal detract from its value as serious history."
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The Women Bonapartes; The Mother and Three Sisters
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