"This collection of letters reveals much about the times through which Napoleon and Josephine prospered and about the forces which played upon a couple who rose

Not that all Napoleons letters, or even many of them, are of a selfrevealing kind. In youth he had few confidants in middle age he had little to confide. la the

Napoleon was not only a great commander and ruler, he was also a king of words. This extraordinary collection of personal correspondence of Napoleon and his wif