Josephine and Napoleon Author:Margaret Irene Laing The most alluring, most glamorous creature I have ever known . . . A woman in the full sense of the word -- volatile, spirited, and with the kindest of hearts . . . She was the woman I loved above all." This was Napoleon's description of Josephine, the great love of his life, whom he made his Empress thus fulfilling a childhood prophecy... more » made to Josephine that she would be "greater than the Queen of France". Later, Napoleon left her for another woman, the daughter of an Emperor, and lived to regret this marriage as "an abyss covered in flowers". The life and times and the extraodrinary character of Josephine and her relationship with Napoleon are fitting subjects for Margaret Laing, a skilled and sensitve biographer.« less