author: sandra gulland
completion date: 07/08/10
method: borrowed (debbie)
this is one time where i would not want to live. it seems like no matter who you are you are either being betrayed or betraying. in this final novel, you see how few friends the bonepartes had.
when napoleon was an emperor, he was revered. adored. going out became a hindrance to him and josephine because they were so adored by there people, if they went to the theatre they were accosted with so many cheers and bouquets. but once he was fallen its like no one cared about him anymore. he was forgotten and rejected. the people who once loved him forgot him. and that just made me so sad.
i mentioned before how horribly the boneparte family treated josephine. i think its because they were a pack of spoiled brats who recognized how wonderful and kind josephine and her children were and resented it (at least thats the skewed view we get from gulland). the people of france called josephine napoleon's good luck charm and it feels true. while they were together he was almost immortal. once he separated from her, he lost. he lost his power over the people and his battles. however napoleon feels like a brat compared to his angel of mercy. along with his family, who quite frankly sucked. hard. they were bratty and snotty and a bunch of dirty turncoats. harumph.
i was sad when this series was over though. i wanted more more more. i couldn't chew through these books fast enough and was hungry for more about josephine after they were finished. i'm going to have to see what else gulland has in her arsenal.
josephine went threw menopause when she was 30 because of the terrible things that she underwent during the terror, and thus when she married napoleon she was unable to have any more children. and this is what drove them apart, because it was all her fault. napoleon sent her to spa after spa and she underwent some horrific treatments for him with the hope of reigniting her system (so to speak). and because infertility is the female's fault, she had to pay for all of it.
vive la revolution!
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