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The Schwarzenberg Ball Fire, Paris, 1 July 1810
They identified her in the morning by the diamonds embedded in what remained of her breastbone. She had gone back inside to save her daughter. Napoleon and his wife had survived.
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Josephine: From Martinique to Empress of the French
Her mother wrote within a week of her birth that God had chosen to give her a daughter, contrary to all their wishes. When Napoleon Bonaparte died on Saint Helena in 1821 with one word on his lips. It was not France. It was not glory. It was her name.