A Cross Posting About Josephine

Hi everyone.

I am a little busy at the moment. If you have noticed my other blog, I am a full time artist heading into the busiest week of my year. I am an artisan in the Toronto One of A Kind show...and it is a big event. I did want to show you one of my new book assemblages. Napoleon always comes with me to the show in some small way. This is my favorite image of Josephine.

I will never get tired of David's painting of the Coronation. Parts of it sneak into my work all the time. And so it should. It keeps Napoleon alive for me a little bit every day. I am also in the midst of a biography of Marie Bonaparte. Interesting to read about one of the descendants.

Now This Is Napoleon's Real Hair

We had a story in a Canadian newspaper about Napoleon this weekend. (My hubby is my clipping service or I would have missed it.)

This lock of Napoleon's hair in a gold mourning ring was sold for $68,000 US dollars this week.

Napoleon gave this lock to the daughter of a British official. He really did love children.

She then passed it on to John Sloan. Somewhere along the way it was given away or sold again, but the John Sloan Museum just bought it back. The story is linked here. I love the ring! What a memento.

Napoleon's Love Story

Clisson and Eugénie: A Love Story

By Napoleon

Okay. It is out. I am going to wait until it is available on Amazon in North America.

Here is a link to the full story.

Napoleon's Hair

Okay.

I was watching this special card on Ebay.

It has one "authentic" piece of Napoleon's hair.

I was wondering if anyone would buy it....because really, Napoleon's hair is in short supply.

But someone did. They paid $132.50US.

They are going to need to spend a WHOLE lot more proving it is from our Emperor.

Another Napoleon Maxim

Impossible is a word to be found

only in the dictionary of fools.