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Francois de Beauharnais, marquis de la Ferte-Beauharnais, was a deputy in the states-general of 1789, and a devoted defender of the monarchy.
Claude de Beauharnais, comte des Roches-Baritaud, uncle of the marquis and of the vicomte de Beauharnais, served in the navy and became a vice-admiral.
The house of Beauharnais is still represented in Russia by the dukes of Leuchtenberg, descendants of Prince Eugene.
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It is noteworthy that though Napoleon at times sought to shift the responsibility for this deed on Talleyrand or Savary, yet during his voyage to St Helena, as also in his will, he frankly avowed his responsibility for it and asserted that in the like circumstances he would do the same again.
On the 7th of June he issued a decree conferring the dignity of viceroy on Eugene de Beauharnais, his stepson; but everything showed that Napoleon's will was to be law; and the great powers at once saw that Napoleon's promise to keep the crowns of France and Italy separate was meaningless.
Stephanie de Beauharnais, niece of Josephine, was also betrothed to the son of the duke (now grand duke) of Baden.
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 NAPOLEON I. - LoveToKnow Article on NAPOLEON I.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He once remarked that the house of Bonaparte dated from the coup ditat of Brumaire (November 1799); but it is certain the de Buonapartes had received the title of nobility from the senate of the republic of Genoa which, during the 18th century, claimed to exercise sovereignty over Corsica.
From the Trait de tactique (1772) of Guibert he caught a glimpse of the power which a patriotic and fully armed nation might gain amidst the feeble and ill-organized governments of that age.
On the 7th of June he issued a decree conferring the dignity of viceroy on Eugene de Beauharnais, his stepson; but everything showed that Napoleons will was to be law; and the great powers at once saw that Napoleons promise to keep the crowns of France and Italyseparate was meaningless.
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 History of Baden, Germany
The Baden contingent continued to assist France, and by the peace of Vienna[?] in 1809 the grand-duke was rewarded with accessions of territory at the expense of the kingdom of Württemberg.
Having quadrupled the area of Baden, Charles Frederick died in June 1811, and was succeeded by his grandson, Charles, Grand Duke of Baden[?], who was married to Stephanie de Beauharnais[?] (died 1860), an adopted daughter of Napoleon.
But in 1813 Baden joined the coalition, and since then that nation created of odds and ends ("de bric et de broc") and always handsomely treated by us, had not ceased to take a leading part in the struggles against our country.
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 Stephanie de Beauharnais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
She was a great-granddaughter to Claude de Beauharnais (1680 - 1738) and Renee Hardouineau (1696 - 1744) who were married in La Rochelle La Rochelle quick summary:
La rochelle is a city or commune of western france, and a seaport on the atlantic ocean (population 76,584 in 1999)....
De facto is a latin expression that means "in fact" or "in practice"....
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 Biography of Josephine de Beauharnais - Biographyies List - BiograhpyFinder.com
In 1779 she married a French army officer, Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais; he was guillotined during the Reign of Terror in 1794.
By her son's daughter, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, wife of King Oscar I of Sweden, she is a direct ancestress of the present royal houses of Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein.
As a widow, Joséphine de Beauharnais was mistress to several leading political figures.
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 schloesser-magazin.de: Schwetzingen Palace - Famous Persons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From 1804 a generous apartment with elegant, modern wallpaper was furnished for her in the former suite of guest rooms.
The fate of Stephanie Louise Adrienne de Beauharnais was determined by the political upheavals of her time.
Born in 1789, the year of the Revolution, she had to be brought to safety from the Reign of Terror as a small child.
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 Napoleon I of France - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Within weeks he was romantically attached to Barras' former mistress, Josephine de Beauharnais, whom he married in 1796.
The Code was prepared by committees of legal experts under the supervision of Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, who held the office Second Consul from 1799 to 1804; Bonaparte, however, participated actively in the sessions of the Council of State that revised the drafts.
The Russians under Mikhail Bogdanovich Barclay de Tolly were unable to successfully defeat Napoleon's huge, well-organized army and retreated instead.
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 schloesser-magazin.de: Mannheim Palace - Famous Persons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
For political reasons, the hereditary prince of Baden was married to Napoleon's niece and adopted daughter, Stephanie de Beauharnais-Napoleon.
However, as the two lived in separate places in the early years (he in Karlsruhe, Stephanie in Mannheim), only Grand Duchess Stephanie initially used the expansive gardens with her royal retinue.
The fate of Stephanie Louise Adrienne de Beauharnais was determined by the political upheavals of her age.
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 Philatelia.Net: Bonapart / Plots of stamps in the catalogue / Beauharnais Stephanie
Stephanie Louise Adrienne de Beauharnais was the consort of Karl Ludwig Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden.
She was a great-granddaughter to Claude de Beauharnais (1680 - 1738) and Renee Hardouineau (1696 - 1744) who were married in La Rochelle during 1713.
Their oldest son was François de Beauharnais, Marquess de la Ferte-Beauharnais (1714 -...
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 boys clothing: European royalty--Romania
Her mother was Vicomtesse Stephanie de Beauharnais (1789-).
It was, however, Leopold's son Ferdinand who was to suceed King Carol who did not have a male heir.
Stephanie born in 1837 was the oldest girl.
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 Etext » books
Madame de la Rochefoucauld, first lady of honor to the Empress, was a hunchback, and so small that it was necessary, when she was to have a place at the table, to heighten the seat of her chair by another very thick cushion made of violet satin.
Madame de la Rochefoucauld knew well how to efface, by means of her bright and sparkling, though somewhat caustic wit, her striking elegance, and her exquisite court manners, any unpleasant impression which might be made by her physical deformity.
She ran to examine her deed, which she had not yet thought to do, and found that it was simply a description of the property, at the end of which was a receipt for two years' rent.
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 Royal Family of Europe - pafg186 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
He married Stephanie Luise Adrienne Napoleone De BEAUHARNAIS on 8 Apr 1806 in, Paris, Seine, France.
Stephanie Luise Adrienne Napoleone De BEAUHARNAIS [Parents] was born on 28 Aug 1789 in, Paris, Seine, France.
Luise Amalie Stephanie Princess Of BADEN was born on 5 Jun 1811 in Schwetzingen, Mannheim, Baden.
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 Napoleon I of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He later boasted that he had cleared the streets with a "whiff of grapeshot." This triumph earned him sudden fame, wealth, and the patronage of the new Directory, particularly that of its leading member, Barras.
Though not apparently enamoured of the language, he was a serious student under the tutelage of Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, even pondering how much money he might have saved had he not required translation of English documents.
Napoleon also formally adopted his stepson Eugène de Beauharnais and Joséphine's cousin, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, after assuming the Imperial throne, in order to arrange "dynastic" marriages for them.
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 Las Cases, Memorial de Sainte Hélène, volume 2, part 3
The Abbé de Montesquion, he said, was constantly expressing his astonishment at this circumstance, the proofs of which he had in his own hands, when he became Minister of the Interior.
As to Madame de Chevreuse, who was a pretty, intelligent, and amiable woman, with a somewhat romantic turn of mind, she had doubtless been seduced by the charms of notoriety, or urged on by her numerous flatterers and admirers, some of whole were very little worthy of her regard.
Madame de Beauharnais was married to General Bonaparte, by a non-juring priest ; who by pure accident had neglected to procure the requisite authority from the curate of the parish.
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 First French Empire
The pope banished, it was now desirable to send away those to whom Italy had been more or less promised.
Eugene de Beauharnais, Napoleon's stepson, was transferred to Frankfurt, and Murat carefully watched until the time should come to take him to Russia and instal him as king of Poland.
Between 1810 and 1812 Napoleon's divorce of Josephine, and his marriage with Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, followed by the birth of the king of Rome, shed a brilliant light upon his future policy.
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 Royal Family of Europe - pafg56 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Louise De SAVOY [Parents] was born on 11 Sep 1477 in Of Savoie,, France.
She was buried in Notre Dame De Paris, Paris, France.
Marguerite De ROHAN [Parents] was born about 1412 in Of, Guilliers, Bretagne.
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 Kaspar Hauser - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In this case, his parents would have been Karl Ludwig Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden and Stephanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon I of France.
The analysis took a long time as the results in the laboratory were examined several times over for the sake of accuracy.
The genetic code was the same in all six samples, and was a 95% match to that of Astrid von Medinger, a descendant of Stephanie de Beauharnais, who would have been Kaspar Hauser's mother if indeed he had been the hereditary prince of Baden.
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 Masterpiece Theatre | The Lost Prince | The Insider! Lost Royals! | The Wild Child!
In 1812, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, wife of Grand Duke Karl of Baden, gave birth to a son, a prince who would one day rule Baden.
Her stepmother-in-law, the Countess of Hochberg, second wife of Karl's father, had reason to hate this child; she wanted her own son, Leopold, to take the throne.
Instead Stanhope went to see Stephanie, the Grand Duchess of Baden, and gave her a copy of Feuerbach's recently completed book about Hauser.
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 Napoleon Series Reviews: the Age of Napoleon
In 1806, the marriage of Stephanie de Beauharnais was attended by 2,500 guests; in 1809, following his victories against Austria, Napoleon arranged a grand reception for 4,000 guests for a staggering cost of 3,000,0000 francs.
Marie Joseph Chénier wrote interesting dramas, René de Pixérécourt was described as the "father of the melodrama", Marie-Henri Beyle made first attempts at writing, Francois Ducray-Duminil wrote numerous novels while Jacques Delille's poems were praised by many contemporary literary figures.
Furthermore, Marquis de Sade, despite his confinement in the mental hospital, produced his notorious works and plays.
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August 28 - Stephanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (d.
July 13 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b.
December 23 - Charles-Michel de l'Épée, French philanthropist and developer of signed French (b.
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 The Crown of Baden - BD1 - Distinctly British
In 1803 Napoleon conferred the title of 'Prince Elector' on the Margrave of Baden, who three years later declared himself to be a sovereign Prince, with the title ‘Grand Duke’.
Charles Frederick, the first holder of the title, died in 1811 and was succeeded by his grandson - Charles, who married Stephanie de Beauharnais - Napoleon's adopted daughter.
Charles received a set of crown jewels form his father-in-law including this crown, which is made of gold fabric, stitched with precious and semi-precious stones.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> el:1860   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
January 2 - The discovery of the planet Vulcan was announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
December 4 - Charles de Broqueville, Belgian Prime Minister (d.
January 29 - Stephanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (b.
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On the next day the Duc de Gramont, of a family famous in scandalous history, Minister of Foreign Affairs, hurries to the tribune with defiance on his lips.
Thus, according to the President of the Senate, France, after waiting, commenced war because she was ready,--- while, according to the Cabinet, it was on the point of honor.
This was construed to be Chatham, where De Witt had really distinguished himself," during the previous war, in the way here indicated,----"the disgrace" of which, says Lingard, "sunk deep into the heart of the King and the hearts of his subjects." History of England, Vol.
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 Weyer Hauser -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He was among the first to publish against the persecution of witches.
His most influential work is ''De Praestigiis Daemonum et Incantatiponibus ac Venificiis'' (On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons, 1563).
He attended the Latin schools in 's-Hertogenbosch and Leuven and when he was about 14 years of age, he became a live-in student of Agrippa, in Antwerp.
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 Napoleon I of France: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In the French part of Poland, he established the Duchy of Warsaw The duchy of warsaw (polish: ksistwo warszawskie, latin: ducatus varsoviae, french: duche de varsovie) was a polish state established by napoleon bonaparte in 1807 from the polish lands he seized...
Firstly, on March 9, 1796 to Joséphine de Beauharnais Joséphine de beauharnais (june 23, 1763 - may 29, 1814) was the first wife of napoléon bonaparte, and became empress of france....
Marshal of France The marshal of france (maréchal de france) was one of the great officers of the crown of france....
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 Kaspar Hauser - Wild Child of Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He was initially skeptical of royal claims, but later changed his mind and argued that Hauser was indeed the legitimate heir of the Duke of Baden, son of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Napoleon.
There was even supposed to be a note that he wrote saying that he had been 'given something.' It was believed by Feuerbach's grandson that at least three members of the Feuerbach family were poisoned because of links to Kasper Hauser.
The 'prince theory', in essence, is that the son Stéphanie de Beauharnais, wife of Grand Duke Karl of Baden, gave birth to in 1812 was Hauser, and it is he who would have inherited the throne.
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