History is fiction. —Robespierre
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. is a work of fiction based on (and inspired by) the extraordinary life of Josephine Bonaparte.
The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
© 1995 by Sandra Gulland.
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Gulland, Sandra
The many lives & secret sorrows of Josephine B. / Sandra Gulland.
ISBN 978-1-55468-284-3
1. Joséphine, Empress, consort of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1763–1814–Fiction.
I. Title. II. Title: Many lives and secret sorrows of Josephine B..
PS8563.U643 M3 2009 C813’.54 C2009-900620-0
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