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Her husband was accused of having poorly defended Mainz in July 1793, and being considered an aristocratic suspect, was sentenced to death and guillotined with his cousin Augustin on 23 July 1794, on the Place de la Révolution (today Place de la Concorde) in Paris.
6 paź 2023 · Joséphine died of pneumonia four years later. Despite her inability to provide Napoleon with an heir, several of her descendants through her first marriage became prominent historical figures; her most famous descendent was her grandson, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, who would one day rule over the Second French Empire as Napoleon III (r. 1852-1870).
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.
Marie Josèphe Rose de 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 ...
1 paź 2024 · Joséphine retreated to her private residence at Malmaison, outside Paris, where she continued to entertain lavishly, with the emperor paying the bills. After Napoleon’s abdication she won the protection of the Russian emperor Alexander I but died soon after.
16 lis 2023 · Ahead of the release of Ridley Scott’s biopic Napoleon, here are 11 facts about Joséphine de Beauharnais, the woman who, for 14 years, stood in the emperor’s shadow. 1. Joséphine de ...
Alexandre de Beauharnais went to the guillotine in July 1794. Though the Terror was close to its conclusion with the imminent fall of the radical leader Robespierre and his colleagues on the Committee of Public Safety, Josephine remained in peril. She allegedly survived these final dangerous days due to the favor of a minor employee of the ...
