Oh really ? This is common ?
Thank you, educational !
Well you know it is probably like this through history.
I was reading about Josephine's earlier life, which I had never gone into, only the part where she was with Napoleon I.
So, her first husband was Viscomte Alexandre de Beauharnais. Beautiful name, but drastically awful guy.
It was like that when he was searching for a bride. He first wanted to marry her younger sister, Catherine-Desiree,
rather than Marie-Joseph-Rose, Josephine's birth name. Why ? Because he was itching to mold a wife and wanted
entirely fresh material free of much education or formative influence. He feared that "Rose", the eldest of 3 girls, was already
way too formed for his taste.
Only when Catherine-Desiree died early, did he reluctantly accept the future Empress Josephine !
Notably, Josephine came from Martinique. That Caribbean island could be considered the equivalent of today's Third World countries, especially when
regarded from the vantage point of the center of civilization for the era, Paris.
However, the one element missing in the analogy was that it was not an old wealthy man, but a younger one.
