Hortense de Beauharnais

Fabergé Egg - First Imperial (Hen) Egg (1885),  presented by Alexander III to Maria Fyodorovna

First-Hand Descriptions of Napoleon By  Tom Holmberg Napoleon was 5 feet 6½ inches tall, average height at the time. In his early y...

1798, première Exposition au Champ de Mars à Paris. A partir de ce moment, les Expositions allaient se succéder rapidement, leur ...

   Books as foodle-chateau-de-coppet Anne Louise Germaine Necker   was born in   22 April 1766 in  Paris ,   France . Her father w...

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...