Andre Castelo called the second part of the book about Josephine “Empress, Queen, Duchess.” This period of her life begins with a happy time - Josephine receives the Empire as a gift. But very soon it turns out that “the throne makes you unhappy”: Napoleon breaks up with the one without whom he previously could not live a day, the brilliant empress will be called “poor Josephine!..”. This is the fate of a woman, “beautiful in joy and in sorrow.” Whether that fate was happy or unsuccessful is for the reader to judge. From Napoleon’s letters to Josephine: “I never had a day when I didn’t think about you. There wasn't a night when I didn't hold you in my arms. I have never drank tea without cursing the fame and ambition that doomed me to separation from the lady of my life. In the thick of things, at the head of the troops, in the camp - everywhere, my charming Josephine alone reigns in my heart, occupies my mind, absorbs my thoughts." "...Thousands, thousands of kisses, as tender as my love!" "...There , where my Josephine is next to me, I don’t see anything anymore.” Josephine about Napoleon: “And yet, God knows, I love him more than life itself...” Napoleon about Josephine: “I have never loved a single woman so much.”< /p>