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Beauhar`nais, Alexandre, Vicomte de

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Born at Martinique, where he married a lady who, afterwards as wife of Napoleon, became the Empress Joséphine; accepted and took part in the Revolution; was secretary of the National Assembly; coolly remarked, on the news of the flight of the king, "The king's gone off; let us pass to the next business of the House"; was convicted of treachery to the cause of the Revolution and put to death; as the father of Hortense, who married Louis, Napoleon's brother, he became grandfather of Napoleon III. (1760-1794).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Beauhar`nais, Alexandre, Vicomte de'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/beauharnais-alexandre-vicomte-de.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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