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JOSEPHINE 275
I. Early years 280
II. In the Artillery 283
III. Early poverty 285
IV. A youthful cynic 288
V. Flight from Corsica 291
VI. A first chance 294
VII. He 298
VIII. She 299
IX. Bonaparte knocks 300
X. The room 301
XI. Enter Josephine 302
XII. The fascination begins 303
XIII. In the toils 305
XIV. Venial mendacities 307
XV. Dithyrambic love 310
XVI. Suspicion 312
XVII. Frivolous Josephine 313
XVIII. The first quarrels 317
XIX. Hippolyte Charles 322
XX. In Egypt 323
XXI. Hopeless Josephine 331
XXII. Napoleon's infidelities 333
XXIII. Madame Walewska 335
XXIV. The divorce 338
XXV. After the divorce 342
MARIE LOUISE 344
I. The Corsican ogre 344
II. The rearing of Marie Louise 347
III. Iphigenia 350
IV. Everlasting peace 351
V. The bridegroom 354
VI. As a Western odalisque 355