![]() more ure release for imprisoned nobles? That seemed like a huge change, but we only get it off-hand, by someone else mentioned all the letters she'd written. There were some points in the story that I would have loved to have seen, but that weren't on the page: How did she go from a person determined to watch what she said so as not to arouse anger or suspicion (in the early years of the Revolution) to the person who wrote letters and worked her contacts to try to sec. She was a survivor to be sure, even when her own weakness was what she had to survive. I was left with an impression of Josephine as both admirable and shallow - writing letters on behalf of people unjustly imprisoned, giving away money and favors while First Consuless and then Empress, but then overspending money she didn't have on dresses and home renovations, sometimes when they didn't even have a secure source of food. ![]() Review 1: This was an interesting read to process. ![]()
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