In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery staff, ends up being fixated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding celebration Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon that later signs up with the forces that cause the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and also ends up being Empress of France, however is then discarded by her spouse when she shows not able to produce a beneficiary to the throne.