"Waking up in the morning, every breath of air I breathe is full of your breath. The lingering and sad last night, like poison, flowed into my body and made me fall into this addictive love! Dear Josephine , your sweetness is unparalleled, and I can't control my heart, so I let you lead it!" - This is a love letter written by Napoleon to Rose de Beauharnet at the end of 1795, when the distance Their wedding has four months left. It is also this love story that became the earliest record of Napoleon calling his lover "Josephine" in history. Josephine, who is known by this new name, has achieved the most magnificent rose legend in history. It was the most touching love story and the most proudly blooming French rose in history.
The future French queen, formerly known as Marie-Joseph Rose Tachy de Rapageli, was born in 1763 in the West Indies in the French colony of Martinique. She was the daughter of the knight Joseph Gaspar de Tachy, lord of Lapagelis in France. Her sister Catherine was betrothed to Alexander, Viscount Beauharnais, but unfortunately died in 1777, so Josephine married Alexander on December 13, 1779, and came to Paris. She was only 16 at the time.
The marriage, arranged by the order of the parents, was not a happy one. During this period, Josephine gave birth to two children, but her husband, Alexander, was a playboy who would only spend money and drink and achieve nothing. In 1794, during the French Revolution, Alexander was imprisoned by the Jacobins and was soon guillotined. Josephine was implicated by her husband and was also detained, with the death row in prison, with the danger of death at any time. However, Lambert Tarion, one of the Thermidor leaders at the time, intervened and Josephine was released. After that, Tarion fell under Josephine's pomegranate skirt and became the lover of this beautiful young woman.
After the end of the French Revolution, Josephine got acquainted with the upper class of Paris society widely, and with her beauty and wisdom, she soon became a social lady in the upper class of Paris. After being introduced by powerful ministers, she met Napoleon Bonaparte. At that time, Napoleon was full of aggressive ambition and domineering. To him, this woman was like a goddess. He fell in love at the first sight of Josephine; This young man means climbing higher ladders in your social career. In this way, the two came together. In 1796, Josephine married Napoleon. Love was born in this way, like a thin spring, moisturizing the heart, quiet and distant.
In 1799, Napoleon was on a war abroad. In order to relieve his loneliness and miss her husband, Josephine purchased a manor in the small town of Melmaison, about 10 miles south of Paris, as a harbor for the soul. In this manor full of English style, there are shady trees and winding paths. A small creek winds its way, like a plantation in Josephine's childhood memory. But in her opinion, the terrain in France is too flat, and the manor still needs more vivid atmosphere. So she invited Scottish horticulturalist Alexander Hotson to decorate every corner of the manor with all kinds of exotic flowers and plants. It was in this estate that Josephine opened her rose garden. Since then, she has been fascinated by botany and horticulture, wandering between nurseries from time to time. When the flowers of the rose garden were in full bloom, Josephine sent an invitation to the flower artist Pierre Redoud, asking him to paint the roses in the garden on the walls of the house, decorating the manor into a world of romantic roses in full bloom. As everyone knows, this invitation made Reddude's most important artistic creation in his life - the young painter completed the famous flower album - "Bible of Roses" after 20 springs and autumns here.
In 1804, the young general Napoleon returned triumphantly as a hero of France and ascended the throne of the French king. With his own hands he crowned Josephine with the crown of the queen. During Napoleon's reign, Josephine devoted herself to her husband's cause. Such a woman, for the one who pleases herself, is her deepest love. She is virtuous and intelligent, and won many neutral and even antagonistic characters for Napoleon, and is called "Napoleon's most pure and flawless angel" by the world.
After the coronation, Josephine, the queen, granted Dupont, the master gardener in Paris, the privilege to freely crossbreed and cultivate a rich variety of roses. Soon, there are more than 200 kinds of rare flower species in the rose garden, with a total of more than 30,000 plants. The rose garden is full of all roses that can be found in Western Europe, and it is the largest rose estate in France. Every rose is like a rare treasure, competing for beauty, setting off a romantic world of love. The names of roses are also colorful, including "The Shadow of the Nymph Goddess", "The Treasure of the Virgin", "Roxy" named after the Queen's home river, "Scarf", and "Crimson Neon Clothes", etc. ,Variety. Queen Josephine's love for roses also had a huge impact on her subjects - during the Anglo-French War, horticulturists had the privilege of crossing the line of defense and regularly shipping new English rose varieties to France; and two Out of respect and love for the queen, the Chinese navy sometimes even stopped naval battles and let the rose-carrying ships pass first.
Just as her husband Napoleon fought valiantly all over the world, so Josephine is in search of precious roses all over the world. Day after day, under Josephine's meticulous decoration, Mel Mason's manor becomes more and more agile, with the fragrance of birds and flowers. There are also various rare birds and animals in the park, such as Australian black swans, Swiss cows, African gazelles, and a naive gorilla, often making guests laugh. Tropical plants from the Queen's hometown of Martinique are planted in the greenhouse in the garden, and exotic flowers and plants from North America are also decorated around the rose garden. Queen Josephine, despite the war, insisted on introducing new rose varieties from Belgium and England. In the rumbling of the Anglo-French War, Napoleon once wrote to his beloved wife: "I have brought you a new batch of plants from England, and I have ordered them to be handed over to your gardener."
One of Napoleon's personal assistants once recalled this . Said: "Except on the battlefield of victory, I have never seen His Majesty the king so happy as he was in the rose garden." However, since Josephine never gave birth to a prince for Napoleon, Napoleon was compelled by the problem of succession to the throne. Reluctantly, he divorced Josephine on December 16, 1809, and married Austrian Princess Marion Louise as his second queen. But he allowed Josephine to keep her name and stay in the rose garden.
Lonely Josephine stopped in the lonely rose garden, still beautiful and intelligent, but there was sadness in her deep eyes. In 1814, just a year before Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena, Josephine died.
Josephine was in debt, and the children had to sell Mel Mason's Rose Manor after her death. Year after year, people go to empty buildings, and the empty houses look desolate. There were robbers who ransacked the rose garden frantically, and the beauty of the past is gone forever. Only the roses painted on the wall by the painter Reddude bloomed alone, lonely and desolate in the rushing wind. Time flies, beauty, roses and painters have gone with the wind, leaving only the beautiful roses on the wall, as if telling Josephine's unfinished dream. Later, in a battle between France and Prussia, the Rose Garden was almost completely destroyed, and the few remaining houses served as barracks for French troops.
Josephine's rose, delicate and refined, can be called the flower of the kingdom of heaven. The stab of the rose hurts deeply, and after years of marriage with her beloved, she chose to leave gracefully. Josephine, the noble queen of France, is the proud blooming rose of France.
The rose garden is gone, but the romance and loyalty of the past remain. Some people say that not all flowers can represent love, but roses do. Perhaps, "I want you to love me!" Such a persistent and sad confession is the flower language that Josephine Rose will always leave us.
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