May 29, 2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Empress Josephine, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. Josephine’s life did not begin when she married the famous Corsican so this week, to honor her, we are looking at the time before she became a Bonaparte. Join Christine as she explores the years when Josephine answered to a different name, had a husband named Alexandre, and almost became a victim of the Reign of Terror.
Podcaster: Christine
Further Reading
Evangeline Bruce. Napoleon and Josephine: An Improbable Marriage. Scribner: New York, 1995. André Castelot. Josephine. Trans Denise Folliot. Harper & Row: New York, 1967. Ernest John Knapton. Empress Josephine. Harvard University Press: Massachusetts, 1963. Music by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com) 
Alexandre and Josephine de Beauharnais' children, Eugène (left) and Hortense (right)
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