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Josephine

Josephine

I already mentioned that Napoleon Bonaparte’s first wife Josephine grew up around here. Today we went to visit what remains of her old family home. Not much as it turns out. That’s the foundations of the big house. The plantation sugar refinery still has some walls and a chimney, and the old kitchen building has been restored as a small museum. They have a collection of portraits of Josephine… … including the tragic, “Josephine signing the divorce papers after she…

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