Joséphine de Beauharnais
Noble person
1763 – 1814
Who was Joséphine de Beauharnais?
Joséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of Napoleon I, and thus the first Empress of the French. Her first husband Alexandre de Beauharnais was guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and she was imprisoned in the Carmes prison until her release five days after Alexandre's execution. Through her daughter, Hortense, she was the maternal grandmother of Napoléon III. Through her son, Eugène, she was the great-grandmother of later Swedish and Danish kings and queens. The reigning houses of Belgium, Norway and Luxembourg also descend from her. She did not bear Napoleon any children; as a result, he divorced her in 1810 to marry Marie Louise of Austria. Joséphine was the recipient of numerous love letters written by Napoleon, many of which still exist. Her Château de Malmaison was noted for its magnificent rose garden, which she supervised closely, owing to her passionate interest in roses, collected from all over the world.
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- Born
- Jun 23, 1763
Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique - Also known as
- Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie
- Josephine de Beauharnais
- Žozefina de Bogarnje
- Žozefina de Boharnė, Josefina
- Parents
- Spouses
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(1796/03/09 - 1810/01/10) - Alexandre de Beauharnais
(1779/12/13 - 1794/07/23)
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- France
- Lived in
- Martinique
- Died
- May 29, 1814
Rueil-Malmaison
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on July 23, 2013
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