Hortense de Beauharnais

The Revolution of 1789 was, as we know, not a single revolution at all. It was at least a half dozen revolutions, each kicking at the heels...

By  Ira Grossman   Once upon a time 200 years ago, Napoleon and Josephine lived in a house in Paris’ Rue de la Victoire. It was the only ho...

ADRESSE 47 rue de la Victoire En vous promenant  rue de la Victoire , à la hauteur des n° 47 à 51, vous tomberez devant un panneau de...

Born Pauline Bellisle in southern France on 15 March 1778, Pauline was the daughter of a clockmaker, Henri Jacques-Clement Bellisle. She wo...

Napoleon began his education at a boys' school in Ajaccio. Then, at age ten, he was allowed to enter French military schools for aristo...

linternaute/maison-bonaparte     La  maison natale de Napoléon Bonaparte  donne au visiteur l'occasion d'admirer le m...

Pierre Felix Cottrau - The Salon of Hortense de Beauharnais (1783-1837)    In the morning, no visitors were admitted. Hortense and Ad...

Eugénie de Montijo, as she became known in  France , was educated in  Paris , at the fashionable Convent of the Sacré Cœur. When Prince  Lou...

The  Château de Saint-Cloud  was a  Palace  in  France , built on a magnificent site overlooking the  Seine  at  Saint-Cloud  in  Hauts...