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Eugène de Beauharnais was a soldier, prince of the French First Empire, and viceroy of Italy for Napoleon I, who was his stepfather (from 1796) and adoptive father (from 1806). His father, the general Alexandre, Viscount de Beauharnais, was guillotined on June 23, 1794.
Joséphine de Beauharnais was born to a wealthy white Creole family that owned a sugar plantation. She was a daughter of Joseph-Gaspard Tascher (1735-1790), chevalier, seigneur de la Pagerie, lieutenant of Troupes de Marine, and his wife, the former Rose-Claire des Vergers de Sannois (1736-1807), whose maternal grandfather, Anthony Brown, was ...
Her father was Joseph-Gaspard Tascher, chevalier, Seigneur de la Pagerie, lieutenant of ‘Troupes de Marine’ and mother was Rose-Claire des Vergers de Sannois. They were a wealthy Creole family and the owner of a sugar plantation.
Eugène Rose de Beauharnais was born in Paris on 3 September 1781 as the son of Viscount Alexandre de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie, both born in the French colony of Martinique. His father served as a general during the early Revolutionary Wars.
They had two children: a son, Eugène de Beauharnais, and a daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais (who later married Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte in 1802). Joséphine and Alexandre's marriage was not a happy one.
Aug 6, 2024 · 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. son Eugène de Beauharnais. (Show more)
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Eugène was officially adopted by Napoleon on 12 January, 1806. He renounced his rights to the crown of France, but was called to the succession of the throne of Italy after the emperor and his direct descendants.
