Napoleon Bonaparte, the founder of the First French Empire, is regarded as one of the greatest military men of the 19th century, Hugo calls him "Michelangelo of war", Romain Rolland says he is "the great dreamer living in dreams", and Hegel considers Napoleon to be "the presence of God". In any case, Napoleon is a legendary figure, and the traces he has left in history are all very colorful and exciting.
However, it is such a male lord, but there are also unsolvable knots in his life, that is, he has always regretted and cannot complete the emotional life.
Napoleon had many affairs in his life, but ming media was marrying only two wives, the first of which was Empress Josephine Boarne, who was also the favorite woman of Napoleon's life. She was already the mother of two children when she married Napoleon, but she became the queen of France as a widow, and also won Napoleon's infatuation, which is inseparable from her beauty and purity.
However, she has not been able to accompany Napoleon all the time, although Napoleon truly loves the queen, but Josephine has not been able to give birth to an heir, which makes Napoleon, who loves beauty more and loves the country, have to choose to divorce him. On January 10, 1809, Napoleon and Josephine officially broke up, a decision that was undoubtedly painful and brought the great emperor to tears.
But the crown prince was clearly more important to the empire, and soon Napoleon began to pick his next wife. His second wife was Mary Louis, Grand Duchess of Orlyte, and it is interesting that Napoleon, when he first saw her portrait, sneered at the archduches's appearance and said that "a fool would marry such a woman".
In fact, this does not mean that Mary must be ugly, but Napoleon still has the position of Queen Josephine in his heart, so everyone is very harsh. However, under the circumstances, Austria was very afraid of the alliance between France and Russia, so it secretly obstructed the marriage negotiations between France and Russia, so that Napoleon could only choose to marry Austria.
Mary herself did not like Napoleon, and before she got married, she said: "I agree [to this marriage] only because my duty requires my consent." And Napoleon, who could not forget Josephine, also ruthlessly commented on this: "I am only married to a fertile organ." ”
But soon the two men became "fragrant", with Napoleon claiming that Mary was better than the first empress, and Mary wrote in her letter: "People's views of the emperor are extremely unfair. The more a person knows him, the more he will appreciate and love him. In this way, Napoleon and the new queen fell in love, and in July of the same year successfully conceived Mary, and then gave birth to a boy.
Napoleon was satisfied with this, because his heirs finally had a foothold, but after all, he and Mary were only political marriages with no emotional basis, unlike Queen Josephine, who was napoleon's true love. After the novelty and love period faded, Napoleon remembered Josephine's goodness, and Mary also shifted her focus to her son, and the empress's feelings soon faded day by day.
By 1814, when Napoleon announced his abdication and was exiled to the island of Elba, Mary did not hesitate to turn her back on him and marry her first love. Napoleon was now grieving his fate and josephine's death, and had long forgotten his short-lived love for Mary, and it is said that when Napoleon died in 1821, he also called out Josephine's name. Mary has long found a new happiness, and this political marriage, which is not a success, has finally dissipated in the smoke of history.