Title: Ambition and desire
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.
Subjects: Empresses, Marriage, Biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, New York Times reviewed
Places: France
People: Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821), Josephine Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (1763-1814)