Joséphine, Impératrice et Reine

Frédéric Masson (1847-1923), historian and member of the French Academy, was the greatest specialist on Napoleon at the beginning of the 20th century. Secretary and friend of Prince Jerome Napoleon, he reigned over an army of documentalists who, in his private mansion in the rue de la Baume, stripped thousands of documents and prepared the notes necessary for him to write his numerous historical studies on the First Empire, in particular on Napoleon's close entourage and especially his family.Even if contemporary historians have since done a great deal of research and advanced the state of our knowledge of this period, Frédéric Masson, author of more than 50 volumes, offers us documentation that is still irreplaceable today. In his work, three works are dedicated to Josephine:-1- Josephine de Beauharnais, 1763-1796. 2- Josephine, empress and queen. 3- Josephine repudiated, 1809-1814.