Josephine: The Rose of Martinique

by Andrea Stuart

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`It’s a story worthy of a blockbuster novel, and it’s all true. Oodles of sex, passion, adultery, media hype, decadence, plots, murder, mayhem, anguish and betrayal fill these pages . . . an enjoyable, well-researched book; I didn’t want to reach the end’ Edwina Currie, New Statesman Books of the Year

One of the most potent icons of female sexuality, Josephine has largely been reduced to an empty cipher, wife to her more famous husband and the butt of one of the oldest jokes around. Yet as Andrea Stuart shows, the girl who grew up on the beautiful island of Martinique endured Caribbean slave revolts, an arranged marriage, and the threat of the guillotine before she even met the man who made her Empress of France. In the grip of turbulent times, Josephine used her intelligence and her allure to forge her way in a Paris that raged and fought and danced its way through revolution and empire. This is the thrilling story of her strength, survival and ultimate transformation.

`Delightful’ Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday

  • ISBN10 0330371029
  • ISBN13 9780330371025
  • Publish Date 3 September 2004
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 5 April 2013
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Pan Books
  • Edition Unabridged edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 480
  • Language English