Liliputins in German -4338

Was nuetzt mir der Sieg ueber die ganze Welt, wenn ich nicht mal meine eigene Frau besiegen kann? ... "
Napoleon Bonaparte

Liliputins. What, the heck, is this?
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Josephine de Beauharnais

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Madame de Beauharnais had affairs with several leading political figures, including Paul Fran;ois Jean Nicolas Barras. In 1795, she met Napoleon Bonaparte, six years her junior, and became his mistress. In a letter to her in December, he wrote, "I awake full of you. Your image and the memory of last night’s intoxicating pleasures has left no rest to my senses." In January 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte proposed to her and they were married on 9 March. On the marriage certificate, Jos;phine reduced her age by 4 years and increased Napoleon's by 18 months, making the newly-weds appear to be roughly the same age.[8] Until meeting Bonaparte, she was known as Rose, but Bonaparte preferred to call her Jos;phine, the name she adopted from then on. The marriage was not well received by Napoleon's family, who were shocked that he had married an older widow with two children. His mother and sisters were especially resentful of Jos;phine, as they felt clumsy and unsophisticated in her presence.[10] Two days after the wedding, Bonaparte left Paris to lead a French army into Italy. During their separation, he sent her many love letters. In February 1797, he wrote: “You to whom nature has given spirit, sweetness, and beauty, you who alone can move and rule my heart, you who know all too well the absolute empire you exercise over it!” However, Jos;phine rarely wrote back and when she did, her letters were dry and often tepid. It is known that Jos;phine did not love Napoleon as much as he loved her, and that it took her years before she warmed to his affections. After their marriage, Napoleon was said to have kept a picture of her in his pocket which he would plant many kisses on every passing hour. Jos;phine, left behind in Paris, in 1796 began an affair with a handsome Hussar lieutenant, Hippolyte Charles. Rumors of the affair reached Napoleon; he was infuriated, and his love for her changed entirely.

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"He came out of nowhere to rule everything — but all the while he was waging a romantic war with his adulterous wife Josephine. He conquered the world to try to win her love, and when he couldn't, he conquered it to destroy her, and destroyed himself in the process."
Ridley Scott