But you are coming, aren’t you? You are going to be here beside me, in my arms, on my breast, on my mouth? Take wing and come, come.” “I hope before long to crush you in my arms.” Here’s just a tiny sample of the love he lavished on Josephine, taken from his incredibly intense letters to her. The love affair of Napoleon and Josephine was so explosive their passionate letters have been immortalised in countless books and films - there are said to be more books about Napoleon than any man in history.īut beyond the stories about the French statesman and military leader, his crushing defeat in the battle of Waterloo and his exile to the island of St Helena, it’s the legacy of his relationship with his first wife that lingers to this day.
