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In her role as empress, Josephine had a court appointed to her and reinstated the offices which composed the household of the queen before the French revolution, with Adélaïde de La Rochefoucauld as Première dame d'honneur, Émilie de Beauharnais as Dame d'atour, and the wives of his own officials and generals, Jeanne Charlotte du Lucay ...
1 paź 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 ...
6 paź 2023 · Joséphine de Beauharnais, or Joséphine Bonaparte, was the first wife of French Emperor Napoleon I. In this capacity, she was Empress of the French from 1804 until the annulment of her marriage in 1810, as well as Queen of Italy from 1805 until 1810.
22 lis 2023 · She was Napoleon’s muse, empress of France, and above all a survivor. Dr Laura O’Brien explores how Joséphine de Beauharnais reinvented herself after the Reign of Terror, and her fractious relationship with Napoleon
Joséphine de Beauharnais was the first wife of the Emperor Napoleon I and consequently the Empress of the French from 1804 to 1809.
In 1814 France was invaded, and on 30 March Paris surrendered, before being occupied by the troops of Tsar Alexander I for a year. Josephine kept up to date with these events whilst she was staying at Malmaison, then when she moved to the stately home of Navarre, near Evreux in Normandy.
1 lip 2024 · Josephine de Beauharnais was Napoleon Bonaparte's first wife and empress of the French. The Bonaparte's had a tempestuous 14 year marriage and he divorced her because she didn't produce a male heir. At their "divorce ceremony" he expressed his devotion to her.