Napoleon Bonaparte, while in exile on the island of St. Helena, loved very much to talk with his companions in exile about the women he had known in his life. One day, he looked at his friend Giorgio and said: "We are going to have a long talk about our loves and about women." Another day, he said to Montolon: "Let's talk about our first love!"
It seems that Napoleon confided to his friend that he had seven mistresses in his life. Some people remember that he added, as if blaming himself: "It is a really large number!"
A chronicler of Napoleon's life would have found endless love stories if Napoleon had accepted all the women who were offering themselves to him.