These letters really make me wonder what Josephine was doing. Hortense said that her mother Josephine was the laziest person and she couldn’t find the will to write letters. She was crazy about her son, Eugene, and he was regularly hurt she wouldn’t send him letters, except sporadically.
This is covered in Hortense’s letters to Eugene which I’m not posting any more for now but will continue (God willing).
Hortense and Josephine’s letters posted so far can be found here.
The original French.
