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Born in Romans-sur-Isère to a bourgeois family in 1773, Louis-Hippolyte Charles joined the French Army as a volunteer with his older brother. [1] In 1796, while Napoleon Bonaparte was busy winning his first victories in Italy, Charles, a lieutenant in a Hussar regiment and aide-de-camp to General Charles Leclerc, Bonaparte's brother-in-law, first met Joséphine in Paris.
Joséphine Bonaparte (French: [ʒozefin bɔnapaʁt], born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie; 23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) 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.
The Divorce of the Empress Josephine (French: Le divorce de l'Impératrice Joséphine) is an 1846 history painting by the French artist Henri Frédéric Schopin. [1] It depicts the formal divorce of Joséphine de Beauharnais from her husband Napoleon, Emperor of France, at the Tuileries Palace in Paris on 15 December 1809. [2]
Josephine died of pneumonia in the town of Rueil-Malmaison in France on May 29, 1814. After divorcing Napoleon, she lived in the Château de Malmaison, and although the two were no longer together ...
The affair was tumultuous and short-lived, however, and was the scene for one of the most famous romantic episodes of Napoleon. Eventually Joséphine's jealousy became aroused and she grew to suspect that the two were having an affair. The letter in which Napoleon accepted the resignation of Mlle. de Vaudey
[1] [2] The ceremony took place on 2 April 1810 in the Salon Carré of the Louvre in Paris. Napoleon had divorced his first wife Josephine in order to remarry in search of an heir and a dynastic marriage with the House of Habsburg. [3] The couple had already been married by proxy in Vienna with the bride's uncle Archuke Charles standing in for ...
Marguerite Georges (c. 1787–1867) was a French stage actress. She was one of the most famous French actresses of her time. She is also known for her affair with Napoleon, but also claimed to have had an affair with the Duke of Wellington, a claim which is considered probable by some historians. [1]
The actor dubs the film's central love story as an 'unconventional, codependent romance for the ages.'