Madame de Montesson
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Charlotte-Jeanne Béraud de La Haye de Riou was a mistress to Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, and ultimately, his wife; however, Louis XV would not allow her to become the Duchess. She wrote
Portrait by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1779
Hôtel de Montesson at 40, rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin was destroyed after a fire in 1810
Joséphine de Beauharnais
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Joséphine Bonaparte was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and as such Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810. As Napoleon's consort, she was als
Madame de Montesson
…and first imprisoned in the La Force prison in Paris. She was released on 28 September 1794 (after the fall of Maximilien Robespierre), befriended Joséphine de Beauharnais, and was a prominent figure at the beginning of the empire. The best edition of her works appeared under the title of Œuvres anonymes in 1782–1785. See…
Portrait by François Gérard, c. 1807–08
Josephine and the Fortune-Teller by David Wilkie, 1837
Alexandre-Francois-Marie, Vicomte de Beauharnais by a painter of David's circle (c. 1793)
Alexandre-Francois-Marie, Vicomte de Beauharnais by Georges Rouget (1834)