Hortense de Beauharnais
depicted in Queen Hortense - A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era, 1910

Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, Grand Duchess of Berg and Cleves, Countess of Saint-Leu (April 10, 1783 - October 5, 1837), was the wife of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland and the mother of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French. Download high resolution version (800x1042, 180 KB)Hortense de Beauharnais - Project Gutenberg eBook 12019 This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (800x1042, 180 KB)Hortense de Beauharnais - Project Gutenberg eBook 12019 This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... 1783 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... | Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Louis Bonaparte Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Lodewijk Napoleon in Dutch) (September 2, 1778 - July 25, 1846) was the fifth surviving child and fourth surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino. ... Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (20 April 1808- 9 January 1873) was President of France from 1849 to 1852, and then Emperor of the French under the name Napoléon III from 1852 to 1870. ...

Hortense was born in Paris, France, the daughter of Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais and of his wife Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie. In 1794 her father was executed during the Reign of Terror. Two years later her mother married Napoleon Bonaparte. The Eiffel Tower, the international symbol of the city For other uses, see Paris (disambiguation). ... Alexandre François Marie, Vicomte de Beauharnais (May 28, 1760 _ July 23, 1794) was a French political figure and general. ... Joséphine de Beauharnais, later Empress, painted by François Gerard, 1801 (Hermitage Museum) Joséphine de Beauharnais (June 23, 1763 – May 29, 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and became Empress of the French. ... The Reign of Terror (5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794) or simply The Terror (French: la Terreur) was a period in the French Revolution characterized by brutal repression. ... Napoleon I of France, by Jacques-Louis David. ...

In 1802 at Napoleon's request, Hortense married his brother Louis Bonaparte. The couple had three sons: --69. ... Louis Bonaparte Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Lodewijk Napoleon in Dutch) (September 2, 1778 - July 25, 1846) was the fifth surviving child and fourth surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino. ...

• Napoléon Louis Charles (October 10, 1802 - May 5, 1807)
• Napoléon Louis (October 11, 1804 - March 17, 1831)
• Charles Louis Napoléon, later Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (20 April 1808- 9 January 1873)

In 1806 Napoleon appointed his brother Louis, King of Holland. Hortense accompanied her husband to The Hague, in spite of the fact that their marriage was an unhappy one (the identity of the father of at least one of Hortense's sons has been questioned). In 1810 Louis abdicated as King of Holland and settled in Germany; Hortense, on the other hand, returned with her sons to France. Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (20 April 1808- 9 January 1873) was President of France from 1849 to 1852, and then Emperor of the French under the name Napoléon III from 1852 to 1870. ... April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calaber). ... Arms of The Hague Flag of The city of The Hague. ...

In 1811 Hortense gave birth to a son by her lover, Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut: Auguste Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut de La Billardierie (1785-1870), French general and statesman, son of Alexandre Sebastien de Flahaut de la Billarderie, comte de Flahaut, beheaded at Arras in February 1793, and his wife Adélaïde Filleul, afterwards Mme de Souza, was born in Paris on the...

• Charles Auguste Louis Joseph (October 21, 1811 - March 10, 1865), later made duc de Morny by his half-brother, Napoleon III.

At the restoration of the Bourbons in 1814, Hortense received the protection of Alexander I, Tsar of Russia; at his instigation she was created duchesse de Saint-Leu by King Louis XVIII. During the Hundred Days, however, Hortense supported her step-father and brother-in-law Napoleon. This led to her banishment from France after his final defeat. She travelled in Germany and Italy before purchasing the Château of Arenenberg in the Swiss canton of Thurgau in 1817. She lived there until her death on October 5, 1837. She is buried next to her mother Josephine in the St Pierre-St Paul church in Rueil-Malmaison. Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, duc de Morny (October 21, 1811 - March 10, 1865), French statesman, was the natural son of Hortense de Beauharnais (wife of Louis Bonaparte, and queen of Holland) and Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut, and therefore halfbrother of Napoleon III. He was born in Paris, and his... Following the ousting of Napoleon I of France in 1814, the Allies restored the Bourbon Dynasty to the French throne. ... Aleksander I Pavlovich Romanov (Russian: Александр I Павлович) (December 23, 1777–December 1, 1825), was Emperor of Russia from March 23, 1801–December 1, 1825 and King of Poland from 1815–1825, as well as the first Grand Duke of Finland. ... Louis XVIII (November 17, 1755 - September 16, 1824) was King of France and Navarre from 1814 (although he declared that he considered his reign to have begun in 1795) until his death in 1824, with a brief break in 1815 due to Napoleons return in the Hundred Days. ... The Hundred Days (French Cent-Jours) or the Waterloo Campaign commonly names the period between 20 March 1815, the date on which Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Paris after his return from Elba, and 28 June 1815, the date of the restoration of King Louis XVIII. The phrase Cent jours was... Thurgau (Thurgovia) is a canton of Switzerland. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... | Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Rueil-Malmaison is a French town near Paris, part of the Hauts-de-Seine département and within the Parisian conurbation. ...

Arenenberg today

A portrait of Hortense hangs at Ash Lawn-Highland, the Virginia plantation home of James Monroe, 5th President of the United States. It was one of three portraits given by Hortense to Monroe's daughter Eliza, who went to school with Hortense in France. (The other two portraits are of Hortense's brother Eugene de Beauharnais and of Madame Campan, the headmistress of the school attended by Hortense and Eliza). Eliza's daughter Hortensia Monroe Hay was named in honour of Hortense. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 745 KB) de: Schloss Arenenberg in Salenstein (Kanton Thurgau) en: Castle Arenenberg in Salenstein (canton of Thurgau) fr: Château dArenenberg à Salenstein (canton de Thurgovie) Photo by/von/par Andreas Jäggi, 21 August 2004 File links The following... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 745 KB) de: Schloss Arenenberg in Salenstein (Kanton Thurgau) en: Castle Arenenberg in Salenstein (canton of Thurgau) fr: Château dArenenberg à Salenstein (canton de Thurgovie) Photo by/von/par Andreas Jäggi, 21 August 2004 File links The following... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,793 sq. ... James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the fifth (1817–1825) President of the United States and author of the Monroe Doctrine. ... The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (September 3, 1781 - February 21, 1824) was the first child and only son of Joséphine de Tascher de la Pagerie and Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais. ... Madame Campan Jeanne-Louise-Henriette Campan, born Henriette Genet (October 2nd 1752, Paris - March 16th 1822, Mantes) was a French educator, the companion of Marie Antoinette. ...

External links

• Queen Hortense - A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era - 1910 book by L. Mühlbach, as an eText from Project Gutenberg