Désirée (movie)
- User score: 6.4
- Production country: United States of America
- Producer: Henry Koster
- Production companies: 20th Century Fox
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Release date: 11/16/1954
- Run time: 110 min.
Movie description
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
