Princess Augusta of Bavaria
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Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg was the second child and eldest daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. By marriage, she was
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, c. 1825
Princess Augusta with her brother and mother, 1791
A young Princess Augusta.
Augusta's marriage to Eugène de Beauharnais, by François Guillaume Menageot
Eugène de Beauharnais
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Eugène Rose de Beauharnais was a French statesman and military officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Through the second marriage of his mother, Joséphine de Beauharnais,
Princess Augusta of Bavaria
…broken at the behest of Napoleon I of France. He was trying to ally himself with German princes and organized a double marriage: between Augusta and Eugène de Beauharnais, the only son of Josephine de Beauharnais and Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais, and stepson of Napoleon, and between Charles of Baden and Stéphanie…
Portrait by Andrea Appiani, 1810
Eugène de Beauharnais as an aide-de-camp to Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy, by Antoine-Jean Gros (1798)
Eugène de Beauharnais as colonel of the Consular Guard's chasseurs à cheval, by François Gérard (c. 1802)
Eugène de Beauharnais as Viceroy of Italy, by François Gérard (1810–1811)