Hortense de Beauharnais

The captivating story of Hortense, daughter of Joséphine de Beauharnais and stepdaughter of Napoleon Bonaparte, told in the engaging form of a diary. After being raised in a French colony in the Caribbean, Hortense returns to Europe during the Jacobin dictatorship, during which her father is executed. Her mother, Joséphine, becomes the first wife of the republic's rising star, General Napoleon Bonaparte, but Hortense is also in love with him.