Carolly Erickson Quotes

“It's a wonder, given your prowess with these delicious women, that there aren't dozens of little Bonapartes running around. Tell me, how do you account for that?”
― Carolly Erickson, The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise

“Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you?”
― Carolly Erickson, The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise