Napoleon's Josephine (with Jennifer Wright)

Noble Blood

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine went from a sugar plantation to prison to Empress. But her rise and her fall reveal a dark undercurrent in the trend toward women in post-Revolutionary France. Dana is joined in conversation by the writer Jennifer Wright.

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0:00.0	Prepare to venture to venture to the darkest most haunted locations once again.
0:06.0	About 4 o'clock in the morning it felt like the hand of God touched the castle.
0:11.0	The whole thing just shook. Brace yourself for a
0:15.1	supernatural journey unlike any other. It felt like there were other guests go
0:21.6	staying with us that we could not see.
0:24.1	Listen to Haunted Road season five on the I Heart Radio app, Apple
0:27.5	Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows.
0:31.2	Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.
0:37.0	Listener discretion advised.
0:40.0	Hello, welcome to a very special episode of Noble Blood. I am here with my friend, the brilliant writer and historian Jennifer Wright. Hi Jennifer, I'm
0:50.0	I am so happy to be here again. I am genuinely thrilled to be doing this episode with you.
0:56.2	We are going to be talking about Josephine Bonaparte, which was not her actual namely, really.
1:00.8	It was not. But for popular popular reference Josephine Bonaparte and what I find
1:05.7	very exciting is coincidentally both you and I separately saw the Napoleon movie
1:11.6	the Ridley Scott movie last night.
1:13.2	Oh we did, yes.
1:14.2	I was at the Americana.
1:15.3	I was at the Grove.
1:16.2	Oh my God, we were both doing a Rick Caruso mini town.
1:19.4	That's a very LA thing to say.
1:21.7	I really liked it. I had a blast. I really enjoyed it. I think there are some
1:25.8	historical accuracy. I don't think they matter. I think there are historical
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