Of all the toxic people, I’ve known, one of the most infuriating is the type that is cruel to his/her own family and then runs down the street to rescue a stranger from having a flat tire or whatever ails them.
This project is largely about Hortense se Beauharnais Bonaparte and her memoirs are replete with stories of her husband Louis parading around his good works while he stomped on her ability to outshine him with hers. The story is here.
