This is reflected in Josephine's lifestyle afterward, with many affairs being a way of providing some security for her and her children. Nowadays, it's easy to imagine the trauma that must have weighed on her afterward, being a widowed mother of two in one of history's most turbulent eras. Her first husband had been guillotined during the Reign of Terror (one of the darkest stages of the French Revolution), and she had been jailed herself. Josephine's story before meeting Napoleon was rather tragic, which explains most of her behavior after they married. Given how big Napoleon would become and how much he relied on Josephine, naturally, the tales about them got bigger and bigger over the centuries.
'He conquered the world to try to win her love, and when he couldn’t, he conquered it to destroy her and destroyed himself in the process,” he said then, giving epic contours to a story that seemed to be much more layered than that - as every relationship is. Genres Biopic, Drama Napoleon and Josephine’s Relationship Fluctuated Between Passion and Diplomacyīack in 2021, when Apple landed the rights to Napoleon, Ridley Scott was already giving some insight into how he views Napoleon's and Josephine's relationship.
