Joséphine de Beauharnais is known in history as the first wife of the French emperor Napoleon I and in turn, the first empress of the French. Her first husband was Alexandre de Beauharnais, with whom she bore a son, Eugene and a daughter, Hortense.

She is better known as Josephine de Beauharnais, or Empress Josephine, the first wife of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Born on a simple plantation in Martinique, she ends up in the beautiful Chateau de Malmaison as the ex-wife of Emperor Napoleon. The kitchen of the Tascher de la Pagerie plantation, the birth place of Josephine de ...

Jun 22, 2021 · In October of 1779, Joséphine and her father left for France. On December 15, 1779, she married Alexandre de Beauharnais in Noisy-le-Grand. In 1881, their first son, Eugéne de Beauharnais, was born and in 1783, their daughter Hortense de Beauharnais. Hortense later went on to marry Napoleon’s brother in 1802.

Jun 19, 2021 · 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 Martinique.In 1779 she married a rich young army officer, Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais, and moved to Paris.Although she bore him two children, Hortense and Eugène, the vain Alexandre …