Una McIlvenna is a literary and cultural historian specializing in early modern and 19th-century Europe. Her most recent book, Singing the News of Death, explores the phenomenon of execution ballads. She is also the author of Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici. Una is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, and can be reached at unamcilvenna.com.
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As their letters show, Napoleon was love‑struck. Joséphine? Not so much. Yet even with affairs on both sides, a deep attachment grew—and endured.
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