While in exile on the island of Saint Helena, Napoleon remarked to a loyal follower, “What a novel my life has been!” ...

Coronation of Emperor Napoleon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in Notre-Dame de Paris, December 2, 1804 by Jacques-Louis David and Georges Rouget, 1805-1807. Source: Wikimedia Commons ...

"The enemy is retreating in disorder, and all is going as well as possible," Napoleon wrote to Josephine. "My losses are heavy, but the victory is complete and decisive." He nonchalantly added ...

The story is viewed through the prism of Napoleon´s addictive, volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine.

He tries to please him. He pays him a lot of compliments. Napoleon is a great seducer. "If Alexander were a woman," he wrote Josephine, "I would make him my mistress." SOKHOLOV: This was Napoleon ...