Napoleon’s Women

Romana Habanova III.C

„Women are nothing but machines for producing children.“

23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814 3 December 1779: Married

 Alexandre de Beauharnais because of financial reasons (executed 1794)

Had affairs with several leading political figures (including Napoleon)

9 March 1796: Married Napoleon

1804: Proclaimed the Empress of France

1809: Divorced Napoleon

Joséphine de Beauharnais

15 March 1778: Born as Pauline

Bellisle in southern France 30 November 1798: First met Napoleon

in Cairo when she accompanied her husband on a campaign & became his mistress soon after

After the return from the campaign she led a colorful life as a painter, a harp player, a writer and a businesswoman - moved to Brasil to sell exotic wood to France

1837: Returned to Paris and lived in an apartment surrounded by monkeys (!)

Pauline Fourès-

Napoleon’s Cleopatra

12 December 1791 – 17

December 1847 The eldest child

of Habsburg Emperor Francis I of Austria and Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily

11 March 1810: Was married to Napoleon by proxy and became  Empress of the French and Queen of Italy

March 27: Met her husband for the 1st time

Marie LouiseDuchess of Parma

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Maria Ludovica Leopoldina Franziska Therese Josepha Lucia von Habsburg-Lothringen

20 March 1811: gave birth to a son Napoléon

François Joseph Charles Bonaparte – King of Rome

Was rather reserved, polite, never interfered in politics, a devoted mother

After Napoleon’s death twice remarried and had three more children

 "You are much better-looking than your portrait."

Georges Rouget, Marriage of Napoleon and Marie-Louise (1811)

7 December 1786 – 11 December

1817 1805: Married a wealthy landovner

 Colonna-Walewski, gave birth to (illegitimate?) son

1806: Met Napoleon and became his mistress (patriotic reasons)

Had 2 other children - Count Alexandre Joseph Colonna-Walewski fathered by Napoleon and Rodolphe d'Ornano (whose descendants created brand Sisley) fathered by her 3rd husband

Marie Walewska

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