If there's a love story that also features tea, the most famous would be of Napoleon and Josephine. She was 32 (widowed and a mother of two), he was 26 when they first met. Theirs was un amour passionne. Within two months of meeting, they got married (March 1796) and barely two days after the wedding, Napoleon left to lead an army to Italy. He was working towards his great conquest of the world and by the end of the century, had become one of the most powerful men in the world.
But the story
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