Beauharnais, Hortense de
Beauharnais, Hortense de
(ôrtäNs` də bōärnā`), 1783–1837, queen of Holland (1806–10), daughter of Alexandre and Josephine de Beauharnais and wife of Louis BonaparteBonaparte, Ital. Buonaparte , family name of Napoleon I, emperor of the French. Parentage
Napoleon's father, Carlo Buonaparte, 1746–85, a petty Corsican nobleman, was a lawyer in Ajaccio.
..... Click the link for more information. . She was the mother of Napoleon III and—by her lover, the comte de Flahaut—of the duc de MornyMorny, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, duc de
, 1811–65, French statesman; illegitimate son of Hortense de Beauharnais and the comte de Flahaut de La Billarderie. After an army career (1830–38) during which he fought in North Africa, Morny entered politics and was
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Bibliography
See C. Wright, Daughter to Napoleon (1961).