Joséphine de Beauharnais (Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique, 23 June 1763 – Rueil-Malmaison, 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French. Through her daughter, Hortense, she was the maternal grandmother of Napoléon III. Through her son, she was the great-grandmother of later Swedish and Danish kings and queens, as well as the last Queen of Greece. The current reigning houses of Belgium, Norway and Lux...
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Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1763
Date of death:
- May 29, 1814 (age 50 years)
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Also known as:
- Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie,
- Josephine de Beauharnais
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