What happened to josephine bonaparte
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Empress Josephine (1763-1814)
In this well-known portrait of the Empress, the painter Pierre Paul Prud’hon has shown Josephine relaxing in the magnificent gardens of her home, Malmaison. The life of Josephine, first Empress of the French, was certainly full of ups and downs. She was born in Martinique and had already had two children and been widowed before becoming the wife of General Bonaparte.
Life before Bonaparte: tossed by the waves of fortune
1. Growing up miles from the centre of sophistication
On 23 June 1763, Marie-Joseph Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie was born on the Tros-Îlets plantation in Martinique. At the time, she was called Rose, and she was the eldest daughter of a noble French family. When she was 10 years old, she was sent to the Dames-de-la-providence convent in Fort-de-France, where she received an education that made her a suitable match for the son of a rich family. Indeed, such an alliance would have put an end to her family’s financial problems. When she was 16 she went to France with her father so that she could marry Alexandre de Beauharnai
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Joséphine de Beauharnais
Empress of the French from 1804 to 1810
For her granddaughter, the queen consort of Sweden and Norway, see Josephine of Leuchtenberg. For the racehorse, see Empress Josephine (horse).
| Joséphine de Beauharnais | |
|---|---|
Portrait by Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1809 | |
| Tenure | 18 May 1804 – 10 January 1810 |
| Coronation | 2 December 1804 |
| Tenure | 23 May 1805 – 10 January 1810 |
| Born | Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie (1763-06-23)23 June 1763 Dauphin, Saint Lucia, Lesser Antilles |
| Died | 29 May 1814(1814-05-29) (aged 50) Rueil-Malmaison, Kingdom of France |
| Burial | Church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul, Rueil-Malmaison, France |
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| Issue | |
| House | Tascher de La Pagerie |
| Father | Joseph Gaspard Tascher de La Pagerie |
| Mother | Rose Claire des Vergers de Sannois |
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Joséphine Bonaparte (French:[ʒozefinbɔnapaʁt], 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 marria
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Rose Tascher de La Pagerie
Born Marie-Joseph-Rose Tascher de La Pagerie to a family settled in Martinique, she came to France at the age of 16 to marry a young officer, Alexandre de Beauharnais, whose family was connected with her own. They had two children, a son, Eugène, in 1781, and a daughter, Hortense, in 1783. The couple was unhappy and separated
After returning to Martinique, repercussions of the Revolution and a slave revolt caused her to come back to France in October 1790, where she returned to her husband, who had become a member and later the president of the Jacobin Club and the Deputy of the Constituent Assembly. He returned to military service and became a general in 1792, leading the Army of the Rhine, before resigning and returning to live on his property. He was arrested there in March 1794. He was then transferred to Carmes Prison, where he was joined by his wife in April, and then to La Conciergerie. He was guillotined in July 1794. Rose awaited her turn, but was set free with the fall of Robespierre.
An Empress
As a widow, without any income and two chil
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