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  1. May 25, 2024 · Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de La Pagerie. Also called (1779–96): vicomtesse de Beauharnais or. (1796–1804): Joséphine Bonaparte. Born: June 23, 1763, Trois-Îlets, Martinique. Died: May 29, 1814, Malmaison, France (aged 50) Notable Family Members: spouse Napoleon I. spouse Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais. daughter Hortense.

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  2. Sep 6, 2021 · Tracing Josephine’s Roses. 6 September 2021. Historical literature tells us that Josephine Bonaparte (1763 – 1814), who became the Empress of France between 1804 and 1809 as the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, is remembered for her extensive rose gardens which displayed all the roses known at the time. Strangely there appears to be no ...

  3. Joséphine Bonaparte (French: [ʒozefin bɔnapaʁt], born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was Empress of the French as the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810.

  4. Nov 20, 2023 · Napoleon's Strategic Genius. Joséphine, whose real name was Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de La Pagerie (Napoleon gave her the name Joséphine based on her middle name), had grown up on a...

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  5. Nov 21, 2023 · As biographer Andrea Stuart writes in The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon’s Joséphine, the story of this “first meeting … has been mythologized.”. Legend goes that Joséphine met ...

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  6. 1. Growing up miles from the centre of sophistication. On 23 June 1763, Marie-Joseph Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie was born on the Tros-Îlets plantation in Martinique. At the time, she was called Rose, and she was the eldest daughter of a noble French family.

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  8. Dec 4, 2019 · She brought in horticulturists from the United Kingdom, and Napoleon ordered his warship commanders to search any seized vessels for plants to be sent to Joséphine’s collections. In 1810, she hosted a rose exhibition and produced the first written history on the cultivation of roses.

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