Shocking! Napoleon's Paris does not include the Eiffel Tower. It is the Regency period and you should know about it!

 

This is Josephine Bonaparte's Rosa_Josephine_de_Beauharnais Imperatrice, so named after her by a French botanist. She was an avid collector of seeds and cuttings...even through the double blockade of British and French troops along the coastlines of both countries. 

She purchased a house for herself just south of Paris and created a garden that still is tended today in her honor. Among the flowers are roses, asters, and hundreds more.

But do you know how long she took to bathe and dress each morning? Or what her perfume was? Or how she fared after Napoleon divorced her? Or of what condition, at age 50, she died on the very day Napoleon set foot in France after his escape from Elba?

I tell you this and more in a course I developed for REGENCY FICTION WRITERS. It starts October 15. The cost is $35 for non-members and $20 for members!

Join me and we will have a discussion about those places that will give you ideas for new plots for your historical novels!

Regencyfictionwriters.org/academe