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C.M P. (selkie) reviewed on + 418 more book reviews
This is one of my favourite historical-fiction novels about Napoleon & his first love (unless you count the girl that he used to share cherries with when he was a child). It was later made into a excellent movie, with Brano playing the part of Napoleon.