BEAUHARNAIS, HORTENSE DE

ôrtäNsˈ, 1783–1837, queen of Holland (1806–10), daughter of Alexandre and Josephine de Beauharnais and wife of Louis Bonaparte. She was the mother of Napoleon III and—by her lover, the comte de Flahaut—of the duc de Morny.

See C. Wright, Daughter to Napoleon (1961).

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Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire: From the French of the "Journal D'Une Femme de Cinquante Ans"
Book by Walter Geer, Henriette Lucie Dillon La Tour du Pin de Gouvernet; Brentanos, 1920
Subjects: France--History--Consulate And First Empire, 1799-1815, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Personal Narratives
...recently married her daughter to Vicomte de Beauharnais, who had taken her with him to France. Mme. de La Touche had made her plans to go to...Alexandre and Betsy, who was later Duchesse de Fitz-James. My father followed them to France...
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The Lady of the Holy Alliance: The Life of Julie de Kreudener
Book by Ernest John Knapton; Columbia University Press, 1939
Subjects: Holy Alliance, Kreudener, Barbara Juliane--Freifrau Von--1764-1824
...Madame de Krudener read the inevitable passages from Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Adrien de Lezay-Marnesia, a vapid young kinsman of the Beauharnais family, joined them; he was to meet Madame de Krudener again in 1814 and to be converted...
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The Memoirs of the Baroness Cecile de Courtot: Lady-In-Waiting to the Princess de Lamballe, Princess of Savoy-Carignan
Book by Moritz Berg von Kaisenberg, Jessie Haynes, Cecile Courtot, Anna Gottliebe Luise von Wilhelmine Alvensleben; H. Holt & Co., 1900
Subjects: France--History--1789-1815
...consisting of Hortense Beauharnais, Caroline...the Prince de Poix. The...Madame de Campan, Madame...Josephines. Hortense Beauharnais, Carolina...which Eugene Beauharnais and Hortense take part...The Prince de Poix. The...
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Talleyrand: The Training of a Statesman, 1754-1838
Book by Anna Bowman Dodd; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1927
Subjects: France--History--1789-1815, Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de--prince de Baenevent--1754-1838
...the edition edited and published by the Duc de Broglie in 1891, issued by Calman-Levy. The Duc de Broglie in his preface gives the following account...Will leaving all his papers to the Duchesse de Dino, on the condition, however, that none of...
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Lafayette and the Liberal Ideal, 1814-1824: Politics and Conspiracy in an Age of Reaction
Book by Sylvia Neely; Southern Illinois University Press, 1991
Subjects: France--Politics And Government--1814-1830, Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier--Marquis De--1757-1834--Influence, Statesmen--France--Biography
...de Saint-Jean dapos;Angeacute;ly, General Emmanuel de Grouchy, Joseph Lakanal, and General Simon Bernard...the welfare of another member of Napoleons family, Hortense Beauharnais, whose mother, Josephine, had helped him during his...
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Napoleon III: 'Hero' or 'Grotesque Mediocrity'? Roger Price Examines the Career of Louis-Napoleon, the Nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, and His Position in French Historiography
Journal article by Roger Price; History Review, 2003
Subjects: Emperors--Evaluation, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French--Evaluation
...appointed King of Holland by his brother Napoleon I, and of Hortense de Beauharnais, daughter of the Emperors first wife Josephine. As a...Another death, that of Napoleons son, the so-called Duc de Reichstadt in 1832, left Louis-Napoleon determined to...


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Louis Napoleon Elected President of France
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 48, December 1998
Subjects: France--History, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French--Political activity
...his), was Napoleon Is brother Louis. His mother was Hortense de Beauharnais, Josephines daughter by her first husband. Louis Napoleon...and the following year married the beautiful Eugenie de Montijo. The stage was set for the substantial achievements...
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Prison Pets in the French Revolution
Magazine article by Katharine Macdonogh; History Today, Vol. 46, August 1996
Subjects: Dogs--History, France--Revolution, 1789-1799, Pets--History
...future Empress Josephine, imprisoned at the Carmmes in 1794, received messages from her children, Eugene and Hortense de Beauharnais, concealed in the collar of her pug, Fortune, the only member of her family to be granted visiting rights...
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Talleyrand: The Old Fraud
Magazine article by Andrew Roberts; New Criterion, Vol. 25, April 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Talleyrand: Betrayer and Saviour of France (Book)--Book reviews
...forked and malicious tongue forever there and then. Instead, Talleyrand got his female friends--particularly Hortense de Beauharnais and Madame de Remusat--to help him out as usual, and within a week Napoleon had forgiven him. Talleyrand desperately...
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Napoleon Invades America
Magazine article by Bernard Chevallier; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, July 1993
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French--Exhibitions, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1814--Exhibitions
...time, Napoleon met Rose de Beauharnais, the future Empress Josephine...two children, Eugene and Hortense. They married on March...property - which amounted to de facto recognition of the...prince. The fact that Louis de Bourbon-Conde, Duke of...


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At Home with the Bonapartes; Three of the Best: (Clockwise, from above) Napoleon in Full Fig Chases His Stepdaughter Hortense in a Game of Tag in Francois Flameng's Relaxed and Informal Reception at Malmaison; by Delving into the Very Nature of His Wolfhound, Paulus Potter Makes This a Portrait, Not a Picture; Francois Gerard's Surprisingly Intimate Portrait of Josephine
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 17, 2007
Subjects: Painters, Painters (Artists)
...Stepdaughter Hortense in a Game of...of Josephine de Beauharnais, once the wife...stepdaughter Hortense in a game of...Bonaparte and Beauharnais families, recognisable...promise andthrough Hortense and Eugene Beauharnais Josephine became...


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encyclopedia articles on: Beauharnais Hortense De  - 7 results

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Beauharnais, Hortense De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BEAUHARNAIS, HORTENSE DE ortaNs d boarna , 1783 1837, queen...daughter of Alexandre and Josephine de Beauharnais and wife of Louis Bonaparte . She was...Napoleon III and by her lover, the comte de Flahaut of the duc de Morny . See...
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Morny, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, Duc De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...DUC DE sharl ogust lwe zhozef duk d morne , 1811 65, French statesman; illegitimate son of Hortense de Beauharnais and the comte de Flahaut de La Billarderie . After an army career (1830 38) during which he fought in North Africa, Morny...
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Flahaut De La Billarderie, Auguste Charles Joseph, Comte De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1851) of Louis Napoleon (later Napoleon III) and served again (1860 62) as ambassador to London. The lover of Hortense de Beauharnais , Flahaut was the father of Napoleon IIIs half brother, the duc de Morny . ____________________ Copyright...
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Napoleon III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...spent his youth with his mother, Hortense de Beauharnais , in Switzerland and Germany and...education bill, presented by Frederic de Falloux, which greatly favored the...Napoleons half brother, the duc de Morny . The legislative assembly...
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Campan, Jeanne Louise Henriette
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...girls at Saint-Germain, which Hortense de Beauharnais attended, and directed it until...are Memoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette (1823), Journal...Correspondance inedite avec la reine Hortense (1835...
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