Thérésa Tallien
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Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame Tallien, later Princess of Chimay was a Spanish-born French noblewoman and socialite, who is known as a fashion icon and a famous Salonnière during the Directory period Paris.
Portrait of Madame Tallien, by Jean-Bernard Duvivier, 1806
Citizen Tallien in a cell in La Force Prison, by Jean-Louis Laneuville, 1796. Her hair has been cut short and she is holding her locks in her hands.
James Gillray's caricature of 1805. Paul Barras being entertained by the naked dancing of two wives of prominent men, Thérésa Tallien and Joséphine Bonaparte
When Princesse de Chimay, by François Gérard, 1804
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
Thérésa Tallien
…he went to Paris to justify his conduct, only to be imprisoned on Robespierre's orders first in La Force prison, then in Carmes prison where she met Joséphine de Beauharnais. Tallien was one of the chief organisers of the Thermidorian Reaction which overthrew Robespierre. On the same day, 27 July 1794 (9 Thermidor) Tallien…
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)