Beauharnais

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Beau·har·nais

(bō-är-nā′), Alexandre de 1760-1794.

French soldier who fought with Rochambeau's troops in the American Revolution and later in France with the French Revolutionary army. He was guillotined during the Reign of Terror.

Beauharnais

, Eugène de 1781-1824.

French soldier and statesman. Son of Alexandre and Josephine de Beauharnais, he was later adopted by Napoleon I and became viceroy and then heir apparent to the throne of Italy (1806).

Beauharnais

, Josephine de 1763-1814.

Empress of the French (1804-1809) as the wife of Napoleon I. Married first to Alexandre de Beauharnais, she wed Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796. The marriage was annulled (1810) because of her alleged infertility.

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Beauharnais

(French boarnɛ)

1. (Biography) Alexandre (alɛksãdr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined

2. (Biography) his son, Eugène de (øʒɛn də). 1781–1824, viceroy of Italy (1805–14) for his stepfather Napoleon I

3. (Biography) (Eugénie) (øʒeni) Hortense de (ɔrtɑ̃s də). 1783–1837, queen of Holland (1806–10) as wife of Louis Bonaparte; daughter of Alexandre Beauharnais and sister of Eugène: mother of Napoleon III

4. (Biography) Joséphine de (ʒozefin də), previous name of the Empress Josephine. See Josephine

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Beau•har•nais

(ˌboʊ ɑrˈneɪ)

n.

1. Eugénie Hortense de, 1782–1837, queen of Holland: wife of Louis Bonaparte.

2. Joséphine de, 1763–1814, empress of France 1804–09: first wife of Napoleon I.

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But the baggage trains stretched out so that the last of Beauharnais' train had not yet got out of Moscow and reached the Kaluga road when the vanguard of Ney's army was already emerging from the Great Ordynka Street.

These were troops of Beauharnais' corps which had started before any of the others.

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Thirteen people on board died, including Adeline Coquelin, the 12-year-old niece of Napoleon Bonaparte's divorced wife Josephine de Beauharnais, who isburied at a nearby church.

The famous Welsh beach which has more than 300 shipwrecks under the sand; It was once a busy shipping lane where looters tricked ships to wreck on hidden sandbanks before chopping off their fingers to get their jewellery

A broche studded with a coloured pearl which King Henry IV purchased for $25 million from the Dodge brothers who manufactured the latter's cars, and a diamond-studded pearl necklace from the collection of Queen of Sweden and Norway Josephine de Beauharnais are among the elegant lot on display.

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Hortense de Beauharnais is engrossed in her studies at a boarding school for aristocratic girls.

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| 1796: Napoleon married society beauty Josephine de Beauharnais. | 1831: The French Foreign Legion was founded by King Louis Philippe, with headquarters at Sidi-bel-Abbes in Algeria.

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1796: Napoleon married society beauty Josephine de Beauharnais. 1831: The French Foreign Legion was founded by King Louis Philippe, with headquarters at Sidi-bel-Abbes in Algeria.

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It did not take much digging to discover that the Duke of Leuchtenberg was none other than Eugene de Beauharnais, the stepson of Napoleon who married the daughter of the King of Bavaria, and whose art collection was celebrated in its day.