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Josephine De Beauharnais
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Josephine—or Rose, as her family called her—grew up across the bay from Fort-de-France, near Trois-Ilets, today one of Martinique’s prettiest villages and just a 20-minute ferry ride from the capital. She was baptized in the town’s terra-cotta-colored church, which is now found on rue de l’Impératrice Joséphine. The same street leads out of town to her family’s plantation that now houses the Musée de la Pagerie, devoted to Josephine.
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This XVIIth century chateau where Josephine de Beauharnais stayed features cosy, modern comforts with a vast park in the heart of the lush Charente region. Refined cuisine and a host of leisure activities, guarantee a superb stay. Also enjoy cycling tours, canoes/kayaks, walking trails, Querroy grottoes, Cognac caves, and Roman art.
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Hortense de Beauharnais bracht in totaal slechts zeven ongelukkige maanden in ons land door. In 1810 vluchtte Hortense de Beauharnais vanuit Het Loo in overspannen toestand voorgoed naar haar moeder Joséphine de Beauharnais in Frankrijk. Geen koningin is zozeer belasterd als Hortense, die voor een lichtzinnige vrouw werd gehouden.
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Beauharnais, Alexandre, Vicomte de (1760-94) French soldier, son of a governor of Martinique, served in Louis XVI’s army in the American War of Independence. He accepted revolutionary ideas and was president of the Constituent Assembly in Paris in June 1791. He was given command of the army of the Rhine in 1793 but was arrested as an aristocratic ‘suspect’ and guillotined.
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Beauharnais's boorishness eventually led Rose to agree to a separation, and she moved into a convent that housed privileged women in similar predicaments. There she acquired her Parisian sophistication, absorbing not only social skills but ... a certain degree of mettle. She won custody of the children and generous financial support from her husband. But her fate was pinned inextricably to his, even after she and the children sailed off to Martinique in 1788, returning to a much different France two years later. Beauharnais had made a swift rise to lead the National Assembly, but the Reign of Terror had just as swiftly brought him down. Rose was rounded up as a traitor of the revolutionary government and ended up in the same rat-infested prison where he was kept.
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According to the 1990 United States Census, Josephine ranked as the 121st most popular female first name. In the United States, the name ranked in the Top 1,000 most popular girl's names every decade since 1880 and in the Top 1,000 most popular boy's names in the first decade of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the name ranked in the Top 300 most popular girl's names every year from 2000 (288th) through 2006 (221st).
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