Hortense de Beauharnais

Pierre-Joseph Redouté was hired with botantist Étienne Pierre Ventenat to document the vast plant collection of Joséphine de Beauharnai...

Amethysts are well represented in the royal families of Europe; with hues ranging from light purple to deep, vibrant purple. The most m...

                  In een villa te Pompeji werden de muzen in fresco's afgebeeld.                   Joséphine verwierf ze voor haar...

Like her grand-aunt Marie-Antoinette, Marie-Louise had to strip off her Austrian clothes upon crossing the French border , and was prese...

wiki/Juliette Recamier   "After the Revolution, woman's costume in France moved towards simplicity and freedom from both m...

The Marie-Antoinette Blue Diamond:  Marie-Antoinette’s private jewelry collection contained a 5.64 carat blue heart shaped  diamond  whi...

  This lock of Joséphine’s hair was collected by her private physician, Dr. Lamoureux, on the day of her death, May 29, 1814. Histori...

The "château d'Écouen" During Napoleon's reign as Emperor of the French, there were many military schools that e...

Le jardin et la salle des exercices  de l’instution de s exercices de l’instution  Mme Campan à Saint-Germain-en-Layey e H...

Napoleon Bonaparte, revolutionary general and Emperor of the French, died on May 5, 1821, after a six-year exile on the South Atlantic...

Jean-Baptiste Isabey et sa fille , door François Gérard During the Directory period Isabey frequented drawing rooms of Mme Tallien, ...

Eugénie Hortense Auguste Napoléone, known as Eugénie de Beauharnais, princess of Leuchtenberg (22 December 1808,  Milan  – 1 September ...

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 ...