Love letters during the Napoleonic wars were largely framed by concepts of love which were promoted through novels and philosophy. The standard texts, so to spe

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A critique of attempts by conservative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors to appropriate the rhetoric of victimhood and appeals to "rights" to safeguard

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"This collection of letters reveals much about the times through which Napoleon and Josephine prospered and about the forces which played upon a couple who rose