While Napoléon might have been crazy about his impératrice Joséphine de Beauharnais (a.k.a. "Yeyette"), descendants of French colonialism are not. On Sunday her already beheaded statue, a reminder of that era, was toppled in Martinique, her birthplace.
Above: close-up from "The Empress Joséphine" by Pierre-Paul Prud'Hon
Musée du Louvre
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