Theirs was the love affair of the century - the 18th century.She, the spoilt daughter of a slave-owner, raised on a Caribbean plantation, who ate so much sugar that her teeth turned a grizzled black. He, the hollow-cheeked military upstart with an astonishing capacity for rudeness trumped only by his unwavering arrogance.Their relationship was so tempestuous, dramatic and overtly sexual that it transfixed and alarmed French high society in equal measure, while the couple's exploits - in the boudoir and on the battlefield - have become the stuff of legend.
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