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    He was the military genius who conquered half of Europe in the 19th century, and now the new blockbuster Napoleon will tell the story of the French Emperor\u2019s rise to power.<\/p>\n

    But, along with his battlefield exploits, Napoleon Bonaparte notched up plenty of conquests in the bedroom, too. <\/p>\n

    Here, ahead of the Ridley Scott film starring Joaquin Phoenix, we reveal all about his racy adventures\u2026<\/p>\n

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    Yes tonight, Josephine!<\/b><\/h2>\n

    Legend has it Napoleon turned down sex with his wife Josephine \u2013 played by Vanessa Kirby in the movie \u2013 protesting: \u201cNot tonight, Josephine!\u201d But there\u2019s no record of him saying it. The phrase actually originated in a 1911 song.<\/p>\n

    In fact, Napoleon couldn\u2019t get enough of his spouse.<\/p>\n

    The Corsican-born army officer, who lost his virginity aged 18 in a Paris brothel, wed Josephine de Beauharnais in 1796 at 26 after meeting her at a ball. She was a 32-year-old mum-of two, whose first hubby had been guillotined in the revolution.<\/p>\n

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    They wrote lusty love letters to each other, with Napoleon once penning: \u201cA kiss on your heart\u2026 and one much lower down. Much lower!\u201d<\/p>\n

    On his way back from battle he once told her not to wash before love-making and, for reasons lost to history, nicknamed her private parts \u201cthe Baron de Kepen\u201d.<\/p>\n

    But Josephine was unfaithful with another soldier while Napoleon was on campaign in Italy \u2013 and he was soon having affairs, too.<\/p>\n

    The couple had no children, and with Napoleon desperate for a legitimate heir, he divorced his empress in 1809 \u2013 leaving her devastated.<\/p>\n

    Yet Josephine is said to have been the only woman the general ever really loved. His last word when he died aged 51 in 1821, exiled on the island of St Helena, was \u201cJosephine\u201d. She had already died in 1814.<\/p>\n

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    Teenage bride<\/b><\/h2>\n

    In 1810 Napoleon married his second wife, the 18-year-old Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria.<\/p>\n

    Although she wasn\u2019t keen on marrying him, when they met she told him: \u201cYou are much better-looking than your portrait.\u201d<\/p>\n

    And she apparently loved sex with him, urging her hubby to \u201cdo it again\u201d after their first romp.<\/p>\n

    Napoleon found her \u201cbeautifully made\u201d and liked pinching his young wife to show affection.<\/p>\n

    The couple had a son, who\u2019d briefly become Napoleon II. But after his father\u2019s final defeat in 1815, Marie Louise took another lover and married twice more.<\/p>\n

    Multiple lovers<\/b><\/h2>\n

    It\u2019s reckoned Napoleon had more than 20 mistresses, boasting: \u201cI take women and forget them.\u201d He also claimed: \u201cA woman laughing is a woman conquered.\u201d<\/p>\n

    He began an affair on campaign in Egypt in 1798, with Pauline Foures dubbed \u201cNapoleon\u2019s Cleopatra\u201d. Napoleon seduced the married beauty after \u201caccidentally\u201d spilling a jug of water over her and then \u201chelping\u201d her out of the wet clothes.<\/p>\n

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    In 1806, his sister set him up with divorced teenager Eleonore Denuelle and they had an illegitimate son together.<\/p>\n

    A year later, he met 20-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, wooing her away from an ageing hubby. They would also have a son.<\/p>\n

    Willy war with Welly<\/b><\/h2>\n

    The Duke of Wellington is famous for leading British forces to a final victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.<\/p>\n

    But it turns out he may have been better in bed than his French rival, too. Both generals are believed to have had affairs with the famous Italian singer Giuseppina Grassini and actress Marguerite-Josephine Weimer.<\/p>\n

    Napoleon designed Marguerite new garters and stuffed a roll of 40,000 francs between her breasts. But she declared the Iron Duke was \u201cstronger\u201d in the sack.<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s perhaps not surprising. Napoleon is said to have made mistresses wait naked for him in an antechamber, with sex sessions lasting no more than three minutes.<\/p>\n

    And, while it\u2019s a myth \u201cOld Boney\u201d at 5ft 6-7in was particularly short, his preserved penis has been found to measure just 1.5in.<\/p>\n

    \u25cf Napoleon is in cinemas from November 22.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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