“beauharnais”

The following 2 entries include the term beauharnais.

Beauharnais, de

biographical name

French family including: Vicomte Alexandre 1760-1794 general; his wife Joséphine 1763-1814 later the 1st wife of Napoléon I; their son ; their daughter 1783–1837 wife of Louis Bonaparte and mother of Napoléon III

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Hortense de Beauharnais

biographical name

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