5/21/2023 0 Comments Becoming Josephine by Heather WebbRose secures her footing in high society, reveling in handsome men and But Alexandre dashes her hopes and abandons her amid She arrives exultant to follow herĭreams of attending Court with Alexandre, her elegant aristocrat and Her Martinique plantation to Paris to trade her Creole black magicĬulture for love and adventure. Throughout it all, Josephine learns what it is to trust her own daring and stand on her own two feet. (A man I never in a million years would have wanted to be married to.) This is a fast-paced read that immerses readers in the decadent smells of the Caribbean’s sugar plantations, the dank prisons of Paris, and the Enlightenment salons replete with philosophes debating the ideas of the fledgling republic. My review: In Becoming Josephine, Heather Webb’s marvelous debut has spun the tangled web of a lively and intriguing Josephine, carrying the reader through her early life in Martinique to her near-death escapes during the French Revolution’s Terror, and finally to her tumultuous years married to the mercurial Napoleon Bonaparte.
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