Related to Beauharnais Josephine de: Joséphine de Beauharnais
Beauharnais
, Josephine de 1763-1814. Empress of the French (1804-1809) as the wife of Napoleon I. Married first to Alexandre de Beauharnais, she wed Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796. The marriage was annulled (1810) because of her alleged infertility.