Napoleon's Wives:

Although Napoleon's early life was largely taken up with his military career and care of his destitute family, he did find time to fall in love, with a young bourgeois girl, Desirée Clary. Her family, rich silk merchants from Marseilles, was against the marriage, so their engagement was broken off. Years later, she will marry one of Napoleon's marshalls, and end up Queen of Sweden!

After he was named a general, Napoleon could afford a wife, and soon found a beauty, Josephine de Beauharnais