Hortense de Beauharnais

Originally the summer residence of a family of dukes (the Serbellonis), Villa Sola Cabiati is as wildly over the top as you might ex...

"Portrait of Hortense de Beauharnais " by Jean-Baptiste Isabey, who was born April 11, 1767 Currently on view in the Regency F...

After spending the summer of 1822 in Philadelphia nursing her sick brother, Louisa Adams accepted an invitation to visit her friends Jose...

There was a period when Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin were all in Paris at the same time. Franklin was there as our...

Dans le très beau salon des quatre saisons de l’hôtel de Beauharnais à Paris, des cygnes dorés s’invitent sur les pilastres qui courent ...

Left: Co-owners of the Cracked and Spineless bookshop, Richard Sprent (left) and Mike Gray, with the journal.   A handwritten journa...

Read all about the birth of the King of Rome:   shannonselin/birth-king-of-rome/ Napoleon, a prey to silent agitation, watched this pai...

When Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the remote island of St. Helena after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 he took with hi...

In September 1810, Napoleon advised Josephine that the new Empress was pregnant. It was suggested to Josephine that she leave Paris during ...

  1) The young Napoleon showed little promise 2) The royal navy attacked a city 3) All sides understood the ‘propaganda war 4) T...

The certificate from Napoleon Bonaparte's secret religious wedding to Josephine in 1804, eight years after their civil marriage, will g...

Full signatures from a pair of notorious lovebirds — Napoleon and Josephine — lend an otherwise routine 19th-century French marriage con...

               Early October #1815 Admiral Cockburn & # HMSNorthumberland , with # Napoleon & entourage, is approaching # S...

Le public admirant Le sacre de Napoléon de Jacques-Louis David au Louvre, 1810.

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Piazza Venezia marks the physical center of Rome as well as being a square buzzing with activity and history. On the north end, where Pi...

Even today, in spite of its isolation, St. Helena welcomes a small but regular stream of French visitors who come to see the sites linke...

  Really beautiful pictures on this website: timetravelturtle Travel writer, Michael Turtle   The museum has taken many forms in ...

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Napoleon and Josephine decided that Hortense should marry Napoleon’s brother Louis, even though the two didn’t particularly like each other...

Wood violets were said to be a favorite of Napoleon's first wife, Josephine de Beauharnais, and after her death in the early 1800s, N...

De keizerin staat dit voorjaar centraal in de Amsterdamse Plantage. In dit samenwerkingsproject gaat de bezoeker mee naar het beroemde tu...

The engagement ring the young Napoleon “must have broken his wallet” to buy for his fiancee Josephine.   The golden ring is in an 18th...

The French Revolution Digital Archive ( FRDA ) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nat...

  This lavender-coloured Manteau de Cour of moire silk is the only example in the Netherlands to date of a court train from the  perio...