DESTINY chapter VI "Josephine"

Marie Joseph Rose Beauharnais

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Three weeks later he was made a full general commander of the army of the interior he was 26. Bonaparte now is a man to be recon with. He was driving to Paris with the fine carriage, wearing new clothes, trenching himself with Cologne. The young sophisticated general was no ladies man, but he had fallen in love, her name is Marie Joseph Rose Beauharnais. Everyone called her Rose but Bonaparte called her Josephine. She was an Aristocrat from the French colony of Martinique, a 32 year old widow with two children, which is trying to make in Paris alone. She was known to be a woman of refinement, charm and grace. It was said that she even went to bed gracefully. Bonaparte was dazzled by her..I was naturally timid among women (he said) but madam Beauharnais was the first women who gave me confidence.

Josephine married young, she lost her husband in the guillatine and fell to somebody who helped her out from prison. She had an affair with deferent men in the high level of society .But no one stood far from Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras (Paul Barras) the most powerful figure of the new government. Josephine was his mistress, the woman of influence in the most fashionable salons in Paris. Her sexual experience fired Napoleons passions. He saw her in a world of power she is at the center of the society, she had all these connections. Someone who could be so useful to him, and he was madly in love with her.

Martinique island
 in the CaribbreanThe French
 arrived in 1635,
 built permanent settlements,

Josephine live in a cottage set in a pleasant garden, some say's it was Barras who paid the rent, but Barras is going tired with her and now Bonaparte visiting her there. Josephine seemed amused by her new lover, although she knew how to please him, she did not return his passion. When Bonaparte proposed marriage, she hesitated. She was not attracted to him at all and that she told her friends later that she prolongs time she had to overcome a feeling that repugnant. He was so serious and he had no sense of humor. But she knew her beauty is vanishing already her teeth are badly , getting wrinkle. Napoleon doesn't see it, but others can, and she sees it. Her look fading she knew she needed a protector on march 9 1796 Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie Joseph rose Beauharnais were married....click here to continue

DESTINY chapter VIII
"Love"