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  1. Sep 21, 2023 · On May 14, Josephine Bonaparte went for a walk with the Russian tsar and reportedly "caught a chill" ("The Rose of Martinique"). Many outlets today say she died of pneumonia — although in reality, the cause of her death is unclear. In the days that followed she developed a rash, a fever, and a swollen tongue, before finally expiring.

  2. Nov 24, 2023 · Her first husband, the French politician Alexandre de Beauharnais, was killed by guillotine during the French Revolution, and Josephine herself was imprisoned for three months. The Napoleon movie ...

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  3. Oct 6, 2023 · Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814) was a French noblewoman who was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). She was therefore Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until the annulment of her marriage on 10 January 1810, as well as Queen of Italy from March 1805 until 1810. Born on a sugar cane plantation in the French colony of ...

  4. Nov 22, 2023 · The relationship between Napoleon Bonaparte and his first wife, Joséphine, is as central to Ridley Scott’s new biopic of the French emperor as his military prowess and dramatic rise and fall. In the words of the erstwhile Madame Bonaparte (played by Vanessa Kirby) to her husband (Joaquin Phoenix): “You are nothing without me.”.

  5. Dec 12, 2009 · The Emperor divorced his first wife on December 14th, 1809. Joséphine in coronation costume. The future Empress of the French was born in Martinique in 1763 as Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, daughter of a minor aristocrat. She was known as Rose or Marie and it was Napoleon who called her Josephine. At 16 she was sent to France to ...

  6. The accusations, pleas and shouting lasted for hours, but by dawn they were in each other’s arms again. Josephine would never take another lover, but from that point on Napoleon felt free to do ...

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  8. Josephine caught a cold in mid-May 1814, and despite a doctor’s care she grew steadily worse. She died on May 29, in the arms of her son Eugene. Napoleon learned of her death via a French ...

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