Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte was Queen consort of Holland. She was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoléon I as the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. Hortense later married Napoléon I’s brother, Louis Bonaparte, who had been made King of Holland, making her her stepfather’s sister-in-law. She was the mother of Napoléon III, Emperor of the French; Louis II of Holland; and Napoléon Louis Charles Bonaparte who died at the age of four. She also had an illegitimate son, Charles, Duke of Morny, with her lover, the Comte de Flahaut.
Queen Hortense with her second son, Prince Napoléon Louis. Portrait by François Gérard, 1807
Portrait of Hortense, by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson in 1808
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Joséphine Bonaparte was Empress of the French as the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810. As Napoleon's consort, she was also Queen of Italy from 26 May 1805 until the 1810 annulment. She is widely known as Joséphine de Beauharnais.
Portrait by Antoine-Jean Gros, c. 1809
Alexandre-Francois-Marie, Vicomte de Beauharnais by Georges Rouget
Joséphine de Beauharnais at the château de Malmaison. 1801. By François Gérard.
Napoléon Bonaparte first Consul. By François Gérard. 1803.