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Josephine (1763–1814)
French empress, who married the rising young general Napoleon Bonaparte and became the center of his personal life during the era in which he dominated European history. Name variations: Joséphine Beauharnais; Josephine de Beauharnais; Vicomtesse de Beauharnais; called Yeyette, Marie-Rose, or Rose by her family.
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Born Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie on her family's sugar plantation on the French Caribbean island of Martinique on June 23, 1763; died at her home at the château of Malmaison outside Paris on May 29, 1814, of diphtheria; daughter of Joseph-Gaspard Tascher de la Pagerie and Rose-Claire des Vergers de Sannois Tascher de la Pagerie; attended convent school in Fort-Royal on Martinique, 1773–77; married Alexandre-François-Marie, vicomte de Beauharnais, in 1779; married Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), emperor of France (r.
1804–1815), in 1796; children: (first marriage) Eugène-Rose de Beauharnais (b. 1781, who marriedAmalie Auguste[1788