Hortense de Beauharnais

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Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin-Gouvern et (25 February 1770, Paris – 2 April 1853, Pisa ), (also known as Lucie), was a Fr...

Hostas, or plantain lilies, native to Japan and China and introduced to the West in the late 18th century, are among the most effective o...

  FRANCE Empress Josephine’s shell cameo diadem, presented to her by her brother-in-law Joachim Murat Empire period 1804–15 gold, shel...

As 2013 comes to an end I feel this is the proper time to recognize a truly monumental achievement in the jewelry industry. The Parisian h...

ROOSENDAAL –(tekst Jaap Pleij) In historisch opzicht klopte er natuurlijk niets van, maar het naspelen van de aankomst van Willem Frederi...

Op een veiling in Fontainebleau, in de buurt van Parijs, is een verlovingsring van Napoleon Bonaparte verkocht voor een recordbedrag van ...

   

Hortense hätte doppelt Freude. Zum einen wäre die Stieftochter und Schwägerin von Napoléon I, welche Schloss Arenenberg Anfang des 19. Jahr...

Königin Hortense lebte bis zu ihrem Tod am 5. Oktober 1837 auf Schloss Arenenberg. Ihr Sohn Louis Napoléon hielt sich noch ein Jahr län...

Above:  This model of an armchair, made during the time of the National Convention in France, uses numerous symbols of the Revolution: t...

 Look on:  tiffanyslittleblog/malmaison-je-taime  Hortense was actually an extremely accomplished musician; she loved to play the pia...

Among those documents are four pages of prose young Napoleon Bonaparte drafted in 1795. T hese precious pages, written in Napoleon’s hand...

A rare letter in English written by Napoleon Bonaparte - and filled with errors - has fetched 325,000 euros ($410,000) at auction in Pari...

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...