110 / PART TWO: ENGLISH IN ACTION rules you have learnt in Part 1 of this book. Study the following example: Passage to be summarised Napoleon and Josephine were married at a civil ceremony on 9 March 1796 after the bridegroom had kept his bride waiting for two hours. Josephine, who was thirty-two, was older than Napoleon and as her birth certificate was in Martinique, she conveniently took four years off her age. The bridegroom gallantly added a year to his so on the marriage certificate they both appeared as twenty-eight. No relations on either side were present and the Bonapartes, bitterly opposed to the marriage, pursued a vendetta against Josephine that lasted almost to the end of her life. Napoleon soon found that he could not dominate his new wife as he could his soldiers. On their wedding night, she refused to let him remove her little dog, Fortune, from her bed where he always slept. Later her husband ruefully wrote, ‘I was told that I had the choice of sleeping in another bed or sharing that one with Fortune.’ The dog made his mark in history by biting the General in the leg! The honeymoon was brief as two days after the wedding Napoleon left his new wife in Paris while he took up his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Italy. From there he sent passionate love letters to her and she wrote back to him though not as frequently. (Approximately 200 words)