This is my rendition of my own headcanon about Josephine giving Napoleon his new name and viceversa, from my 2022 translation comic. Translation from Italian below:

J: They will always manage to think ill of a woman, to the point of rewriting her life completely.

J: It's like another widow Beauharnais wandered around Paris. I'm pursued by my own name.

N: Then I'll give you a new one. What's your full name?

J: Ooh, so we are going to "tutoyer" each other already?... Marie-Joseph Rose.

N: A masculine name?

J: A name for a male heir that never came. I was the first of three daughters, but the last whom they cared about when it came to marriage.

J: And now, the only one left.

N: I'll call you Joséphine.

N: Your name will now convey your grace completely. It will convey you.

J: Yeah, it is graceful. And you... you are funny, Bonaparte.

N: My family name is funny, when you say it.

N: The French have been butchering it for seventeen years. At least I like this pronounciation, it's the first I like.

N: But you can call me Napoleon.

At the beginning, Joséphine is complaining about all the persisting rumors about her being promiscuous, to the point of feeling disjointed from her own name. Earlier in the comic, some creeps have tried to harass her based on this rumor.

As I said, in my comic every French-speaking butchers "Buonaparte" (except Junot, because he made the effort to say it correctly out of friendship). Visually, the word in the baloons gets blurred or warped. Josephine simply says "Bonaparte", and he chooses to be called like that from now on.

In 2022 I created a personal headcanon about Josephine giving Napoleon his new, French-friendly name as well. French likely butchered "Napoleone Buonaparte" constantly. Josephine personally dealt with it by cutting straight away the U and saying "Bonaparte", and Napoleon chose it as his new name when they married, as it marked his definitive entrance in French society (and because he liked her).

I recently discovered and watched the 2014 Takarazuka (a kind of Japanese theatre where only women perform) play "Napoleon, the Man who Never Sleeps", and they also had this idea. In the play, Joséphine changes Napoleon's name from Napoleone di Buonaparte to "Napoléon Bonaparte" as well, but contrary to my headcanon, she changes it intentionally, as she finds his original name terrible.

I love this interaction🤭 they're not even married yet and she's so done already

Leaving this little explanation of an old piece of art many of you all know and love already🎀