A travel article by Barbara Noe Kennedy for The Washington Post. The statue depicted an elegant woman in an empire dress with flowing curves Joséphine Bonaparte, the wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, who commissioned the statue upon her death in 1814. Installed in 1859, it stood in idyllic beauty in a park in Joséphine’s homeland,…
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