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When we talk about the erotics of power, it is important not to forget that it was José Bonaparte, that ephemeral king of Spain, but forever remembered by the nicknames that the people gave him, one of the characters in history who obtained the most sexual profit from his eagerness for command. In fact, the biography of Napoleon's older brother does not include significant sexual exploits on his resume until he reaches Spain: in France and Italy, where he began to hold political office as a result of the advanced phase of the Revolution -the Convention- and from the First Empire founded by his brother Napoleon, there are specific loversand much interest in imposing his will on things like public works and the implantation of the values ​​of the new Europe after the revolution. But it was to get to Spain, and leaving aside his legitimate wife, Marie Julie Clary - who gave him three daughters, one of them dead just after giving birth -, was when he started putting on his boots.

It is curious that in the songs of the time and in the popular imagination, José I is remembered as Pepe Botella -for a supposed fondness for alcohol that is seen to be untrue, that they wanted to malmeter, that Spanish thing- or as King Plazuelas , because he was faithful to the Bonapartist spirit of razing the street labyrinths of the ancient cities - his younger brother also partially changed the appearance of Venice by opening wide streets - and he became one of those responsible for the widening of Madrid, opening squares where there was overcrowding of houses. On the other hand, nobody ever jokingly called him El Rey Rijoso or Pepe Esperma, despite the fact that his sexual affairs with several ladies residing in Madrid were known, and that he had a riding school built on the Gran Vía.

Five lovers

The Spanish lovers of José Bonaparte were five, two of high lineage and to whom he went frequently, and three more circumstantial, of whom the relationship is known, but not that there was a very frequent treatment. The main mistress of the king, and for whom she ordered the construction of the famous palace on the Gran Vía -which was just on the corner with Calle del Clavel, opposite what is now the famous Hotel de las Letras-, was Teresa Montalvo, the wife of a wealthy Indian who had business in Cuba, as well as countess of Jaruco, and who was about the age of the king, a little younger. By the time she was 40, testosterone was still available to the monarch and to her the benefits that could be derived from such a royal connection. When José I fled from Spain, the encounters at the riding school were over and no lover left with him, only his legitimate and deceived wife.

The Gran Vía mansion was not a residence. The king did not live there, nor did any of his lovers - despite the popular saying that adulterous men with money usually put a flat on the Gran Vía for their mistresses - but he continually coordinated appointments for, like the King Stunned by the Torrente Ballester novel, run away from the palace and throw a little can into the air. His sexual flirtations with his "official" lover, Maria del Pilar Acedo and Sarriá, a countess married to a Frenchman who supported the Bonapartist cause in Spain, were also frequent - but he did not cross the border when Pepe Botella had to leave in a hurry until France passing through Irún-, and to a lesser extent had loves with an opera singer, Fineschi, as well as with Baroness Burke, who was married to the Danish ambassador in Madrid, and a French noblewoman who passed through, Nancy Derjeux .

When the empire of Napoleon fell definitively, and the younger brother was imprisoned, José Bonaparte went into exile in the United States, where he lived well into the first half of the 19th century, and died at the age of 76. There, after his still vigorous 50s, he continued adding lovers, many of them of indigenous origin - including a descendant of the mythical Pocahontas -, while he fantasized about creating, without success, an empire in Mexico or in the southern United States. Erotic and power to the end, even if it was erotic in decline and a nonexistent power.

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