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Article: A Creole heroine, dogmatic president.(BOOKS)(BIOGRAPHY)
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- May 16, 2004
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Byline: John M. and Priscilla S. Taylor, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Andrea Stuart is a talented writer who brings a fresh perspective to The Rose of Mar
tinique: A Life of Napoleon's Josephine (Grove/Atlantic, $27.50, 455 pages, illus.). To say something different about a subject who has already been tackled by almost 60 biographers is not easy, but the author, who grew up in the Caribbean, has done her research and tells a fascinating story.
Nearly half of this book is devoted to the period before Napoleon enters the life of Marie-Joseph-Rose de Tascher de La Pagerie, known as Rose, and capriciously re-christens her his Josephine. Thus ...
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