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3 articles matching “Napoleon Bonaparte”
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Rose de Beauharnais had not shared a home with her husband in nine years. She was locked in the same prison as him anyway, and she was still there when they killed him.
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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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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.