Ambition and desire
Subtitle: the dangerous life of Josephine Bonaparte
By: Kate Williams
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780345522832
Subjects: Empresses; Marriage; Biography
Description: From CNN's official royal historian, a highly praised young author with a doctorate from Oxford University, comes the extraordinary rags-to-riches story of the woman who conquered Napoleon's heart -- and with it, an empire.
Notes: Originally published under the title Josephine: desire, ambition, Napoleon in the United Kingdom by Hutchinson, a member of The Random House Group Limited, London, in 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-365) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: La Pagerie; title: Sophistication; title: "Beneath all the sluts in the world"; title: Revolution; title: "The height of good manners to be ruined"; title: "What strange power you have over my heart"; title: "The single object in my heart"; title: A million kisses; title: "I am so distressed at being separated from him"; title: "All I have suffered"; title: "He owes me everything"; title: "The most beautiful thing in the world"; title: Scenes with Bonaparte; title: "My stepfather Is a comet"; title: "Your imperial majesty"; title: "The king of diamonds"; title: "I have fulfilled my destiny"; title: "I wish you would be more reasonable"; title: "Cold and often embarrassed"; title: "Like a wounded soldier"; title: "More full of charm"; title: Epilogue.