{"product_id":"napoleon-his-wives-and-women-by-christopher-hibbert","title":"Napoleon: His Wives and ­Women By Christopher Hibbert.","description":"\u003cp\u003eNapoleon: His Wives and ­Women By Christopher Hibbert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback with dust jacket, near fine condition. First Edition 400 pages United Kingdom, 7 November 2002 ISBN: 0002570920 Published by HarperCollins, 2002 16 b\/w, 16 col plates (24pp), With index\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis fresh account of the private life of Napoleon provides an authoritative, up-to-date account of the women in Napoleon's life at all stages of his developing and extraordinary career, based on the fruits of modern research. Hibbert looks at Napoleon's marriages to the charming Creole from Martinique, Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, and the plain and pliant Austrian Archduchess Marie Louise, as well as his affairs with his various mistresses, from the pretty, 20-year-old milliner's apprentice Pauline Foures, who was smuggled out to Egypt wearing the uniform of her husband's regiment, to the young Polish Countess Marie Walewska who resisted him at first but, persuaded by her elderly husband and other Polish patriots to submit, eventually fell in love with him. From his time as an unknown young Corsican officer to First Consul, Emperor and finally exile on St Helena, Napoleon's string of brief liaisons led him to proclaim to Josephine that the \"ordinary rules of morality and propriety\" did not apply to him. As well as the wives and mistresses, the book examines Napoleon's relationship with the women of his family, all of whom disliked and envied Josephine: his beloved, parsimoniou\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51587521839351,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/7687\/5255\/files\/IMG_5692_cf0a9775-9d8f-452c-8494-71ce7e4bcef6.jpg?v=1793301559","url":"https:\/\/phoenixbooksnz.com\/en-cn\/products\/napoleon-his-wives-and-women-by-christopher-hibbert","provider":"Phoenix Books NZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}