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Joséphine Bonaparte (French: [ʒozefin bɔnapaʁt], born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and as such Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810. As Napoleon's consort, she was also Queen of Italy from 26 May 1805 until the 1810 annulment. She is widely known as Joséphine de Beauharnais (French: [ʒozefin də boaʁnɛ]).. Joséphine's marriage to Napoleon was ...
Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, dite Joséphine de Beauharnais, née le 23 juin 1763 aux Trois-Îlets en Martinique et morte le 29 mai 1814 au château de Malmaison à Rueil-Malmaison, est la première épouse de l’empereur Napoléon I er de 1796 à 1809. À ce titre, elle est impératrice des Français de 1804 à 1809 et reine d'Italie de 1805 à 1809.. Joséphine naît d'une famille de békés dans une grande propriété de la Martinique.Elle arrive en métropole après son ...
Jun 19, 2024 · Joséphine (born June 23, 1763, Trois-Îlets, Martinique—died May 29, 1814, Malmaison, France) was the consort of Napoleon Bonaparte and empress of the French.. Joséphine, the eldest daughter of Joseph Tascher de La Pagerie, an impoverished aristocrat who had a commission in the navy, lived the first 15 years of her life on the island of Martinique.In 1779 she married a rich young army officer, Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais, and moved to Paris.Although she bore him two children ...
Oct 6, 2023 · Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814) was a French noblewoman who was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). She was therefore Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until the annulment of her marriage on 10 January 1810, as well as Queen of Italy from March 1805 until 1810.. Born on a sugar cane plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Joséphine married French viscount Alexandre de Beauharnais in late 1779 and moved with him to Paris.The couple had a rocky marriage that ...
Dec 4, 2019 · In 1766, the family fortunes dived as hurricanes tore through the sugarcane estates. Joséphine’s need to find a wealthy husband became more pressing. Her younger sister, Catherine, was arranged to be married to a relative named Alexandre de Beauharnais. When 12-year-old Catherine died in 1777, Joséphine was quickly found as a replacement.
Nov 20, 2023 · The relationship between Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Joséphine de Beauharnais has been hailed as a love affair for the ages, but it was anything but a perfect picture of selfless devotion ...
Joséphine de Beauharnais (nee Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) (June 23, 1763 – May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French.Through her daughter, Hortense, she was the maternal grandmother of Napoleon III.Through her son she was the Great-Grand mother of the latest Swedish and Danish Kings and Queens, as well as the last Greek Queen.
Joséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of the Emperor Napoleon I and consequently the Empress of the French from 1804 to 1809. Full name Joséphine de Beauharnais. Title Empress of the French. Life 1763-1814. Her traces in Versailles Her representations. Rose Tascher de La Pagerie.
May 20, 2024 · Joséphine de Beauharnais was born on June 23, 1763 in Trois-Îlets, Martinique, a French colony in the Caribbean. She was born into a wealthy family and married at age 16 to Alexandre de Beauharnais, a general and viscount of Beauharnais, a French noble family. She moved to France after the wedding and had a son named Eugène and a daughter named Hortense.
Josephine (1763–1814)French empress, who married the rising young general Napoleon Bonaparte and became the center of his personal life during the era in which he dominated European history. Name variations: Joséphine Beauharnais; Josephine de Beauharnais; Vicomtesse de Beauharnais; called Yeyette, Marie-Rose, or Rose by her family. Source for information on Josephine (1763–1814): Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia dictionary.
