The statue depicts someone Napoleon Bonaparte described as “the most beautiful woman of her time” and “the best of living creatures.” Pauline, Napoleon’s favorite sister and one of the ...

Napoleon didn’t start off as royalty ... the former empress that had been commissioned by Bonaparte’s nephew Napoléon III in 1859. The statue of Josephine had also been decapitated in ...

Joséphine de Beauharnais and Napoleon Bonaparte’s relationship is the ... Hortense and Eugène commissioned a sculptor to create a statue of their mother, which they installed there in her ...

Arriving late in Ajaccio, Corsica, at Aéroport Napoleon Bonaparte, I take a taxi to Hotel ... Catherine takes me behind the statue to a little cave where he played as a boy.