In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery staff, ends up being fascinated with Napoleon Bonaparte, however winds up wedding celebration Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later on joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's failure. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly prostitute weds Napoleon and ends up being Empress of France, however is after that cast aside by her spouse when she proves incapable to generate a beneficiary to the throne.