She was born on St. John’s Eve in 1763 in Martinique, an island outside France, far from Paris. There, she spent the first years of her life, among the sweet scents of the Caribbean Sea, gazing at the ships and lives lost in the sea on the distant horizon. Her story changes after her first marriage. She left her tropical enclave and entered a complex Europe that was about to change forever.
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The story of Josephine de Beauharnais is the story of a Creole who became an empress. She was slender and well-shaped, with brown hair and brown eyes.She traveled to the French capital after her marriage Alexander de Beauharnaisa liberal aristocrat who assumed important political roles during the war. French Revolution.
From their relationship, a little Hortense de Beauharnais and a little Eugene born; the arrival of the former into the world was interpreted as follows: alejandro as clear evidence of his wife’s infidelity.After making her life impossible, it Josephine She herself requests a letter of legal separation from the monarch’s lawyer and forever exorcises the ghost that the relationship has released. The breaking point of the ordeal she was about to experience marks the beginning of her true journey.
After spending two years, martinique, she returned to France and found that everything had changed. What historians later called the Old Regime ceased to exist. The revolution’s reign of terror landed Josephine in prison, where she spent three months behind bars. When she leaves her cell, she navigates a sea of financial hardship and is ultimately left behind, rubbing shoulders with the world’s best sectors. A society that sought freedom through the guillotine. One day between August and September 1795, when he was staying in the room, madame teresa talianShe struck up a friendship with him while he was in prison. She met Napoleon…
Although she was 32 and the Corsican general was 26, six years her junior, they had much in common. Both were born on islands that had recently been annexed by France, where French speakers spread throughout the world, and had kind mothers and irresponsible fathers. Their relationship has gone down in history as one of the most iconic royal relationships known to mankind. They were civilly married in March 1796Among the rumors that the notary kept whispering to her was that the soldier was a poor man with no future other than the loyalty of the soldiers at his disposal.
“Do you still think I don’t have anything?”
2 days later Napoleon entered Italy With the same army. During the campaign, he never stopped writing letters to tell his loved ones everything he saw in the exotic worlds he visited and the constant news that happened on the battlefield. “You, to whom nature has endowed me with spirit and sweetness and beauty, are the only one who can touch and govern my heart, and who knows well the absolute empire in which you exercise it.”, it is written in one of his epistles. Many of these texts have survived to this day.
But she didn’t feel the same way. She did not write to him as often and even confessed in writing to one of her friends that she was “in a state of indifference.” As the days passed, she felt more and more attracted to him. The military-successful man’s bubble burst when he was spotted in bed with a woman. After they overcome difficulties in their marriage and reconcile, The coronation has arrived.
Napoleon was building an empire that turned the Old Continent into a French octopus whose tentacles extended to every corner of the geography. And there, in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, reminiscent of the figure of Charlemagne, he was crowned emperor, and she as empress. With a golden laurel wreath on her head, she called the notary and asked him a question in a whisper. “Do you still think I don’t have anything?”
The problem of leaving Europe as a heritage
Their married life soon enters a completely different stage. He was dealing with the complex problem of building a bridge across a boiling continent. Meanwhile, she spent her days acting, reading, and idle in her castle, which was richly decorated with everything from mummies to Romanesque paintings. Memories of her husband’s voyages. Many years passed in peace and quiet. Napoleon decided to call off the marriage, fearing that he would have no successor who could leave him conquesting Europe.
he married the grand duchess Marie Louise of Austriahe became a father Napoleon II Fate was a trick. His son died young and could barely rule for two weeks. After a turbulent period of abdication and hardship, popular opinion, imperial ambition, and the final blow to the Bourbon dynasty in Gaul intertwined. The crown was given to Napoleon I’s younger brother Joseph I., at the turn of historical events, married Hortense de Beauharnais.That’s how it was Napoleon IIIthe first president of the country, the last French king, and the last French emperor took the throne – Josephine’s grandson.