A new Hollywood epic traces Napoleon Bonaparte ... Commons Napoleon in his coronation robes Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Abandoned by Napoleon, the former empress retreated from public ...

He had been Napoleone Buonaparte and became Napoléon Bonaparte ... Joséphine Empress, but on the condition that she tame her style. Napoleon chose the designer for her coronation outfits.

From the islands to Paris The woman who would become Joséphine Bonaparte was born Marie ... As a prerequisite for the couple’s coronation as emperor and empress in 1804, they underwent an ...

She was the wife of one of the world’s most famous empire builders, but Josephine Bonaparte was a cunning tactician in her own right, says author and historian Kate Williams Paris, 1795.