Did Josephine have black teeth? What were Josephine’s last words?

Josephine Bonaparte was Empress of the French as the wife of Emperor of the French as the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I.

She was the eldest daughter of Joseph Gaspard Tascher, knight, Seigneur de (Lord of) la Pagerie, lieutenant of Troupes de Marine, and his wife, the former Rose-Claire des Vergers de Sannois (1736–1807), whose maternal grandfather, Anthony Brown, may have been Irish.

Did Josephine have black teeth?

Source states that “her blackened and rotting teeth were a direct result of the sugar-saturated cuisine consumed during her childhood” in Martinique. The 1814 painting and perhaps the one by Gérard suggest a fuller face than the rest, which indicate more of a V-shape.

What were Josephine’s last words?

By this time her health was failing. She died on 29 May 1814, her last words purportedly ‘Bonaparte … Elba … the King of Rome’.