What happened to Josephine after she divorced Napoleon Bonaparte?

Warning: Major spoilers for Napoleon below!

Napoleon focuses on the complicated love story between Joaquin Phoenix’s title character and Vanessa Kirby’s Josephine and Napoleon’s rise to power, but what happened to Josephine after her divorce? Ridley Scott Trailers Napoleon I sold it as a radical historical epic, but it’s more of a black comedy. Napoleon Bonaparte from Phoenix is ​​depicted as an insecure, aloof and self-obsessed figure who turns out to be a military genius. When he’s not competing, he is. The film focuses mainly on Napoleon’s first marriage to Josephine Bonaparte. When they meet, she is a widow because her husband was beheaded during the French Revolution.

Like a real wedding, the film depicts a passionate but doomed romance. Despite his adoration for Josephine, Napoleon divorced her and remarried when he realized she could not bear children for him. This relationship forms the emotional core of Scott’s historical drama Napoleon Although accused of many historical inaccuracies, it remains completely faithful to the evolution of marriage and its emotional consequences.

Josephine remained in contact with Napoleon and never married again.

After their divorce, Napoleon married the Archduchess of Austria, Marie-Louise (Anna Mawn), who would later give birth to his son. According to some accounts, Bonaparte never wanted to divorce Josephine and continued to love her, but decided that, for the sake of France, he must produce an heir. After years of trying to have a child, she decided: “to testWhen he became infertile by sleeping with a lover who later became pregnant. Josephine then agreed to divorce the Emperor in 1810 so that she could remarry and produce an heir.

After their divorce, Josephine moved to Malmaison Castle, where she lived most of her life. Despite the dissolution of his marriage, Napoleon continued to write letters to Josephine and the two maintained a close friendship. He also allowed her to retain the title of Empress after their divorce, and she never remarried. It is said that Napoleon’s second wife, Marie-Louis, was so jealous of his relationship with his ex-wife that she later had to secretly introduce her son Napoleon II to Josephine. He once called the young prince a boy “that cost him so many tears“.

Josephine became Duchess of Navarre

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Josephine has always been a supporter of the arts and during her time at Malmaison she greatly expanded her personal collection and also maintained her gardens. Napoleon also visited her unannounced several times and it seems that the last time they met was in 1812, before Bonaparte left for his Russian campaign. Napoleon also named Josephine Duchess of Navarre and she spent time between Navaree Castle and Malmaison.

After Napoleon’s campaign in Russia ended in disaster, the coalition exiled him to the island of Elba in 1814, while Josephine befriended the Russian Tsar Alexander I, who played a major role in Napoleon’s overthrow. Their shared love of art was their most important bond and it was rumored that Josephine and Alexander were more than just friends. Although this has never been confirmed, it is unlikely that the close bond between them made Napoleon happy during his exile.

How Josephine Bonaparte died and how old she was

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This friendship was short-lived, however, as Josephine soon developed pneumonia. Josephine died in May 1814 at Malmaison, aged 50, and her funeral took place a few days later. While Napoleon The film shows how Bonaparte has already broken his exile on Elba and marches towards Josephine, who dies before his arrival; In fact, she died while he was still in exile. He was so devastated by the news that he refused to talk to anyone for two days.

After his defeat at Waterloo in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon was exiled again, this time to the island of St Helena. He died in May 1821, aged 51. Napoleon The final scenes also reveal that Bonaparte’s last words in real life were:France, the army, the commander-in-chief of the army, Joséphine“.