Quatrain 1.88* Josephine

Le diuin mal surprendra le grand Prince,

Vn peu deuant aura femme espousee:

Son puy & credit a vn coup viendra mince,

Conseil mourra pour la teste rasee.

The divine disease overtakes the great Prince,

a short while before he will marry.

Both supporters and credit will suddenly diminish.

Advice, he will die because of the shaven head.

Josephine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), Parisian aristocrat, was the first wife of Napoleon I. Their marriage was registered on 09.03.1796. She was older than him, and she had it a second marriage. In 1804 she was crowned as Empress.

1, 2 lanes. The divine disease – venereal, named after the ancient Roman goddess of carnal love Venus. Josephine led a free lifestyle and had numerous love affairs. She probably infected Napoleon with a sexually transmitted disease.

The Empress was unable to give birth to an heir, and their marriage, which lasted 14 years, broke up in 1809. Bonaparte married the daughter of the Austrian king. She bore him a long-awaited son.

3-4 lines. According to many, Josephine was the lucky star of the emperor. After a divorce from her, luck turned away from him, and after 5 years he lost everything. Perhaps this clever woman was giving wise advices to her husband. Napoleon also understood that his success depended on her. On Elba island he wrote: “I married Josephine for love … I will say more: a certain superstition … made me believe in her necessity for my political prosperity. I noticed that everything succeeds when her occult influence controls my actions."

Possible decoding of number 1.88. 188+1=189. If 18 to consider the century -1800, then 1800+9=1809 is the year of divorce.