(1760-05-28)28 May 1760 Fort-Royal, Martinique, France
Died
23 July 1794(1794-07-23) (aged 34) Paris, France
Resting place
Picpus Cemetery, Paris
Spouse
Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie
(m. 1779)
Children
Eugène de Beauharnais (son) Hortense de Beauharnais (daughter)
Military service
Allegiance
Kingdom of France Kingdom of France First French Republic
Branch/service
Army
Years of service
1775–1794
Rank
General of division
Commands
Army of the Rhine
Battles/wars
American Revolutionary War French Revolutionary Wars
War of the First Coalition
Siege of Mainz (1793)
Alexandre François Marie, Viscount of Beauharnais (28 May 1760 – 23 July 1794) was a French politician and general of the French Revolution. He was the first husband of Joséphine Tascher de La Pagerie, who later married Napoleon Bonaparte and became empress of France. Beauharnais was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror.
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the second child and first daughter to Alexandre François Marie, Vicomte deBeauharnais, and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie. Her parents separated when...
Leuchtenberg, descendant in male line of Eugène deBeauharnais. Originating in Brittany, the Beauharnais (or Beauharnois) became established in the fourteenth...
described as an apathetic temperament.[citation needed] General AlexandredeBeauharnais decided to put Tarrare's abilities to military use, and employed...
Claude deBeauharnais, uncle of AlexandredeBeauharnais and of François deBeauharnais. She was godmother to Hortense deBeauharnais, Alexandre's daughter...
Thomas de Treil de Pardailhan (1754–1822) François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny (1737–1821), later a Marshal of France AlexandredeBeauharnais (1760–1794)...
brother-in-law Joachim Murat, his uncle Joseph Fesch, and his stepson Eugène deBeauharnais. Between 1852 and 1870, there was a Second French Empire, when a member...
distinction. These included Colonel Berthier and Lieutenant Colonel AlexandredeBeauharnais (husband of the future Empress Joséphine). After the Kingdom of...
Josephine of Leuchtenberg (Joséphine Maximilienne Eugénie Napoléone deBeauharnais; 14 March 1807 – 7 June 1876), also Josefina, was Queen of Sweden and...
9: Marriage of Napoléon Bonaparte and Joséphine deBeauharnais, the widow of AlexandredeBeauharnais, a French general and political leader guillotined...
previous husband, Alexandre-Francois Le Vassor de la Touche de Longpre (1744 - 1779), engaged in an affair with AlexandredeBeauharnais, from which resulted...
mother was Hortense deBeauharnais, the only daughter of Napoleon's wife Joséphine by her first marriage to AlexandredeBeauharnais. He was the first Bonaparte...
mother-in-law, Catherine de Cossé-Brissac duchesse de Noailles, and daughter, Anne Jeanne Baptiste Louise vicomtesse d'Ayen. AlexandredeBeauharnais (1760–1794),...
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