Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine Beauharnais

Napoleon Bonaparte   14" H Bonded White Marble on Alabaster Base $218 (-Internet discount of 29) = $188 (freight $13)	Josephine Beauharnais  14-1/4" H Bonded White Marble on Alabaster Base $218 (-Internet discount of 29) = $188 (freight $13)
Both Napoleon and Josephine as a Pair $436 (-Internet discount of 96) = $340 (freight $26)
Napoleon was desperately in love with Josephine, widowed when her husband, General de Beauharnais, was sent to the guillotine during the reign of terror. She came later to devotedly love him but was at first reluctant to marry the little known artillery officer. Within ten years, following dazzling military and political achievements, he elevated her to the position of Empress, a role which she played with graciousness and charming elegance.	On the island of Martinique there proudly stands a statue of Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, a native of that West Indies island, who through the military and political genius of her second husband, Napoleon Bonaparte, became the Empress of France. Josephine was vivacious, witty, charming, beautiful, intelligent but with little education, wildly extravagant and loved by Napoleon.