The Children of Adam and Eve

Beauharnais, Jos?ine de, n?Marie Josephine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie
(1763-1814), first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, born in Martinique, West
Indies. In 1779 she married the French army officer Alexandre, vicomte de
Beauharnais (1760-94). Her husband was sympathetic to the Republican cause
in France, but in 1793 he was forced to resign as general of the Army of
the Rhine because he was a nobleman. During the Reign of Terror he was
accused of counterrevolutionary activities, and in 1794 was guillotined.
Two years later Jos?ine married Napoleon, and in 1804, when he became
emperor, she became empress of France. Napoleon divorced her in 1809. By
her marriage to Beauharnais, Jos?ine was the mother of Eug? de
Beauharnais and of HOrtense de Beauharnais (1783-1837), later the wife of
Napoleon's Brother, Louis Bonaparte, and the mother of Napoleon III.