Guys, I need some help. I'm looking for the best primary sources on Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais. Personal accounts that come as close to understanding them as real people would be best, although autobiographical journals, writings, and communiques would be even better. You see, I'm writing a biographical screenplay on the two and it seems like most biographers either completely romanticized their relationship and who they were as individuals, or went in the complete opposite direction. Either way, it's hard to really interpret them.

If anyone has ever read Giacomo Casanova's autobiography, you really get a sense for the author himself in the writing which is what makes it such a good analysis of its subject. Of course, the more famous and detached the individual is, the more difficult that becomes.