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3 days ago · Joséphine (born June 23, 1763, Trois-Îlets, Martinique—died May 29, 1814, Malmaison, France) was the consort of Napoleon Bonaparte and empress of the French. Joséphine, the eldest daughter of Joseph Tascher de La Pagerie, an impoverished aristocrat who had a commission in the navy, lived the first 15 years of her life on the island of ...
2 days ago · In the end, Malmaison endures as a monument to the unbreakable bond between Napoleon and Josephine, an emperor and empress who, for a fleeting moment, held the fate of Europe in their hands. To visit this hallowed estate is to bear witness to a romance that helped define an epoch – an unforgettable rendezvous with history itself. References
4 days ago · Alexandre, viscount de Beauharnais (born May 28, 1760, Martinique—died June 23, 1794, Paris, France) was the first husband of Joséphine (later empress of the French) and grandfather of Napoleon III; he was a prominent figure during the Revolution.
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The Wiltshire-based artist has been observing and painting nature for her whole life, but lately she’s been closely studying plants, including the botanical compositions of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, perhaps best known for his early-19th-century ...
3 days ago · As empress, Joséphine had proposed the marriage of Louis and Hortense as a way to produce an heir for the Emperor, who agreed, as Joséphine was by then infertile. Louis and Hortense had a difficult relationship and only lived together for brief periods.
1 day ago · As the garden flourished, word of Joséphine’s ever-blooming roses reached new shores, bringing notoriety to Lee and Kennedy, a partnership of two families of Scottish nurserymen working from Hammersmith in London, who supplied the Empress with varieties such as Hume’s Blush Tea Scented China and Parson’s Pink.
5 days ago · Empress Josephine Bonaparte, wife of Napoleon, was a passionate rose lover and collector. While her husband was acquiring an empire, she was acquiring property, gardeners, and 250 different roses from all over the world to add to the gardens of Malmaison, her chateau retreat outside Paris.
