the stunning massively bestselling story of napoleons first fianc first published in 1953 this riveting truelife tale comes to life in diary form giving readers an inside glimpse at the young napoleon and his family dsire is enchanted by the young officer and he asks her to marry him but he must leave for paris where he meets his eventual wife josephine a heartbroken dsire is unsure shell ever find anyone again a love story but so much more dsire is the tale of a simple merchants daughter who ends up with a kind of royalty she never expected an unforgettable story just waiting to be reborn