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Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte (French pronunciation: [ɔʁtɑ̃s øʒeni sesil bɔnapaʁt]; née de Beauharnais, pronounced [də boaʁnɛ]; 10 April 1783 – 5 October 1837) was Queen consort of Holland. She was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoléon I as the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
Hortense was the queen of Holland, stepdaughter of Napoleon I, and mother of Napoleon III. The daughter of the future empress Joséphine and of her first husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Hortense became one of the attractions of the court after Napoleon became first consul of the French in 1799.
Hortense de Beauharnais, reine de Hollande (1806-1810), duchesse de Saint-Leu (Saint-Leu-la-Forêt) , née le 10 avril 1783 à Paris et morte le 5 octobre 1837 au château d'Arenenberg dans le canton de Thurgovie en Suisse, est un membre de la famille impériale française, fille de Joséphine de Beauharnais et mère de l'empereur Napoléon III ...
In the summer of 1795, Hortense was sent to the Institution Nationale de Saint-Germain (a girls’ school) founded and directed by Madame Campan, ex-First Lady-in-waiting to Marie-Antoinette. Hortense was to find here a climate of confidence which gave her room to blossom.
Hortense de Beauharnais was destined to play a role in history if only because Napoleon I was her stepfather. She was born in Paris, France, in 1783, the daughter of Alexander, vicomte de Beauharnais, and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie, later Empress Josephine.
Hortense de Beauharnais died on October 5, 1837 of uterus cancer, in her Arenenberg castle, on southern bank of the Lake Constance, in Switzerland. She is buried near her mother in the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul Church of Rueil-Malmaison.
Hortense de Beauharnais. Born in 1783, Hortense received a good education in the Parisian salons her mother visited and at the school of Madame Campan in Saint-Germain where she studied the fine arts (drawing, painting, music, theatre).
