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Napoleon’s wife Josephine is remembered with the title of this tune. It is well known that Irish people looked to Napoleon as their possible savior during their struggle for independence from the British. Songwriters composed Napoleonic songs and music composers named their tunes in honor oftheir would-be liberator-or his wife!
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