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Beauharnais, Joséphine de (1763–1814) View Biographical Record
Article: Imperatricis, josephinae, josephinia
Publication: Verklarend woordenboek der wetenschappelijke namen van de in Nederland en Nederlandsch-Indië...
Subject ID: 41690
| Subject Name: | Beauharnais, Joséphine de |
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| Article Title: | Imperatricis, josephinae, josephinia |
| Publication Primary Author: | Backer, C. A. |
| Call Number: | L15 B126V |
| Notes: | Actually Joséphine Marie Joséphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie; often called Joséphine de Beauharnais; 1763-1814; born Trois-Ilets, Martinique, died Malmaison nr. Paris; 1779 married Alexandre de Beauharnais (beheaded 1794); 1796 married Napoleon Bonaparte, then gen. of French Republique; immediately after his own coronation as Emperor he crowned her Empress, 1804; in 1809 Nap., who wanted an divorced her because of childlessness; she kept the title of Empress. She was a great lover of flowers; a bulb which she bought in Holland was the first to flower in Europe at her castle in Malmaison; therefore the species was named after her; 'Brunsvigia josephinae' Kew-Gawl, just as is 'Josephinia' Vent. ('Josephinia imperatricis Vent.). |