Giuseppina Grassini, lover of Napoleon, 1773-1850. Gioseppa Maria Camilla, also known as Josephina Grassini, Italian dramatic contralto and singing teacher, had affairs with Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington. From a painting of her in the role of Zaire by Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun. Mezzotint by Michel Manzi and Maurice Joyant from Frederic Masson’s Napoleon et les Femmes, Napoleon and the Fair Sex, Goupil, Paris, 1906.

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