Josephine Beauharnais Quotes & Sayings

[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long. — Josephine De Beauharnais

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun. — Josephine De Beauharnais

A letter is the portrait of the soul ... — Josephine De Beauharnais

Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful young men, and money was the only wholesome trait in his character. — J. Christopher Herold