Alexandre de Beauharnais


Alexandre Franois Marie, Viscount of Beauharnais was a French political figure and general during the French Revolution. He was the first husband of Josphine Tascher de la Pagerie, who later married Napoleon Bonaparte and became Empress of the First Empire.

His paternal grandparents Claude de Beauharnais and Rene Hardouineau were married in La Rochelle during 1713. His father Franois de Beauharnais, Marquess de la La FertBeauharnais served as Governor of Martinique. Alexandre was the third of three sons born to him by his first wife Marie Henriette Pyvart de Chastull the first died in infancy, and the second was Francis VI of Beauharnais. His father was remarried in 1796 to Eugenie de Tascher de la Pagerie .

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