Beauharnais

[ boh-ar-ne ]

/ boʊ arˈnɛ /

noun

A·le·xandre de [a-lek-sahndruh duh] /æ lɛk sɑndrə də/,1760–94, French general and statesman.

Eu·gé·nie Hortense de

[œ-zhey-nee awr-tahns duh] /œ ʒeɪˈni ɔrˈtɑ̃s də/,1782–1837, queen of Holland: wife of Louis Bonaparte.

Jo·sé·phine de

[zhaw-zey-feen duh] /ʒɔ zeɪˈfin də/,1763–1814, empress of France 1804–09: first wife of Napoleon I.

Example sentences from the Web for beauharnais

Beauharnais was now in the Conciergerie, doomed to die, and awaiting his execution.

Hortense, Makers of History Series |John S. C. Abbott
At last Beauharnais's turn came; he too was denounced to the Commune, and imprisoned.

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte |William Milligan Sloane
Yet Josephine had children by Beauharnais, her previous husband.

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners |B.G. Jefferis
M. Renaudin, a particular friend of the Beauharnais, undertook the management of their West India property.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 |Various

According to the standard of the fashionable world, Beauharnais was a very honorable man.

Hortense, Makers of History Series |John S. C. Abbott

British Dictionary definitions for beauharnais

Beauharnais

/ (French boarnɛ) /

noun

Alexandre (alɛksã̃dr), Vicomte de. 1760–94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined

his son, Eugène de (øʒɛn də). 1781–1824, viceroy of Italy (1805–14) for his stepfather Napoleon I

(Eugénie) (øʒeni) Hortense de (ɔrtɑ̃s də). 1783–1837, queen of Holland (1806–10) as wife of Louis Bonaparte; daughter of Alexandre Beauharnais and sister of Eugène: mother of Napoleon III

Joséphine de (ʒozefin də), previous name of the Empress Josephine See Josephine

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