- Joséphine de Beauharnais - Wikipedia
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
- Josephine | Biography, Napoleon, Facts | Britannica
Josephine, consort of Napoleon Bonaparte and empress of the French
- Josephine - Baby Name Meaning, Origin, and Popularity
Josephine is the feminine form of Joseph, a name ultimately derived from the Hebrew Yosef, meaning "Jehovah increases " In French, it has an accent over the first E, which was omitted in the English, German, and Dutch translations of the name
- Joséphine de Beauharnais - World History Encyclopedia
It is cold down in the Saint-Joseph crypt even in midsummer, and inmates' health broke down fast, indeed it is possible that Josephine survived only because she was too ill to be guillotined (Roberts, 69)
- 11 Facts About Joséphine de Beauharnais - Mental Floss
9 Joséphine may have been infertile by the time she married Napoleon 'The Divorce of the Empress Josephine' by Frederic Schopin | Historical Picture Archive GettyImages
- Who Was Empress Joséphine? The Woman Who Captured Napoleon’s Heart
Alexandre de Beauharnais was Josephine’s first husband In 1779, Joséphine set sail to France to marry Alexandre They had a son, Eugène, and a daughter, Hortense, who later married Louis Bonaparte, Napoleon’s brother The marriage was miserable, and Alexandre’s long indulgences in drink and women prompted a court-ordered separation
- Napoleons first wife, Josephine de Beauharnais - History Things
Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais was Napoleon’s first wife and the first Empress of the French During the Reign of Terror, Joséphine’s first husband had been guillotined Due to not bearing any children for Napoleon, he divorced her in 1810 after fourteen years of marriage so he could marry Marie Louise of Austria On June 23, […]
- The Life and times of Josephine Bonaparte
Josephine Bonaparte’s legacy is a fascinating tale of overcoming the odds, a journey from poverty to the opulent salons of Parisian society where she helped to influence an era
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