Joséphine de la Pagerie de Tascher ^{1 2}

   Another name for Joséphine was Joséphine de Beauharnais.

  General Notes:

Beauharnais, Joséphine de, née MARIE JOSÉPHINE ROSE TASCHER DE LA PAGERIE, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, born in Martinique, West Indies. In 1779 she married the French army officer Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais. Her husband was sympathetic to the Republican cause in France, but in 1793 he was forced to resign as general of the Army of the Rhine because he was a nobleman. During the Reign of Terror he was accused of counterrevolutionary activities, and in 1794 was guillotined. Two years later Joséphine married Napoleon, and in 1804, when he became emperor, she became empress of France. Napoleon divorced her in 1809. By her marriage to Beauharnais, Joséphine was the mother of Eugène de Beauharnais and of Hortense de Beauharnais, later the wife of Napoleon's brother, Louis Bonaparte, and the mother of Napoleon III.

  Noted events in her life were:

• She was employed. Empress of France.

Joséphine married Alexandre François Marie de Beauharnais, son of François de Beauharnais and Marie Henriette Pyvart de Chastullé, on 13 Jun 1779 in Noisy-le-Grand. (Alexandre François Marie de Beauharnais was born on 28 May 1760 and died on 23 Jul 1794.) The cause of his death was execution.

Joséphine next married Napoleon I Bonaparte, son of Carlo Bonaparte and Marie Letizia Ramolino, on 8 Mar 1796. The marriage ended in divorce in 1809. (Napoleon I Bonaparte was born on 15 Aug 1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica and died on 5 May 1821.)