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Hortense de Beauharnais
Queen Consort of Holland
Female
Born
Apr 10, 1783
Hometown
Paris
Died
Oct 5, 1837
Death Place
Arenenberg
Hortense Eug%C3%A9nie C%C3%A9cile Bonaparte, Queen Consort of Holland, was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoleon I, being the daughter of his first wife, Jos%C3%A9phine de Beauharnais. She later became the wife of the former's brother, Louis Bonaparte… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1783
Birth
Hortense was born in Paris, France on 10 April 1783, the daughter of Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais and Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie.
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TEENAGE
Her father was executed on 23 July 1794, at the time of the French Revolution, a few days before the end of the Reign of Terror.
1802
19 Years Old
In 1802, at Napoleon's request, Hortense married his brother Louis Bonaparte.
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TWENTIES
In 1806, Napoleon appointed his brother Louis to be the King of Holland, and Hortense accompanied her husband to The Hague.
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She remained in France, again pleased by her status as queen at the French court, until 1810, when Napoleon forced her to return to the Netherlands at his new wedding—he did not consider it suitable to have the daughter of his former spouse at court.
1811
28 Years Old
In 1811, at an unspecified inn in Switzerland, close to Lake Geneva, Hortense secretly gave birth to a son by de Flahaut,
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THIRTIES
1814
31 Years Old
At the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, Hortense received the protection of Alexander I, Tsar of Russia; at his instigation she was created duchess of Saint-Leu by King Louis XVIII.
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1817
34 Years Old
She traveled in Germany and Italy before purchasing the Château of Arenenberg in the Swiss canton of Thurgau in 1817.
FIFTIES
1837
54 Years Old
She lived there until her death on 5 October 1837, at the age of fifty-four.
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