Josephine: A Life of the Empress by Carolly Erickson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/628213 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Josephine: A Life of the Empress Author: Carolly Erickson Narrator: Anna Fields Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 3 minutes Release date: January 1, 2007 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When, in 1804, Josephine Bonaparte knelt before her husband Napoleon to receive the imperial diadem, few in the vast crowd of onlookers were aware of the dark secrets hidden behind the imperial fa├ºade. To her subjects, she appeared to be the most favored woman in France: alluring, wealthy, and with the devoted love of a remarkable husband who was the conqueror of Europe. In actuality, Josephine's life was far darker: her celebrated allure was fading, her wealth was compromised by massive debt, and her marriage was corroded by infidelity and abuse. Josephine's life story was as turbulent as the age—an era of revolution and social upheaval, frenzied hedonism and the guillotine. With telling psychological depth and compelling literary grace, Carolly Erickson brings the complex, charming, ever-resilient Josephine to life, carrying us along every twist and turn of the empress' often thorny path,from the sensual richness of her childhood in the tropics to her final lonely days at Malmaison.