David did manage to get a private sitting with the Empress Josephine and Napoleon's sister, Caroline Murat, through the intervention of erstwhile art patron, Marshal Joachim Murat, the Emperor's brother-in-law.

In the early 19th century the Empress Josephine of France patronized the development of rose breeding at her gardens at Malmaison.

* June 23 – Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France ( d. 1814 )

By proxy at the Leuchtenberg Palace in Munich on 22 May 1823 and in person at a wedding ceremony conducted in Stockholm on 19 June 1823 he married the Princess Josephine, daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, and granddaughter of the Empress Josephine.

After becoming the First Consul, Napoleon arranged for a marriage between Louis and Hortense de Beauharnais, the daughter of Empress Josephine, and hence Napoleon's stepdaughter.

Even after their separation Napoleon insisted Josephine retain the title of Empress.

Empress Josephine.

Josephine: Napoleon's Incomparable Empress.

* Empress Josephine by Ernest John Knapton.

* Memoirs of the Empress Josephine ( Volume 1 ) at archive. org

* Memoirs of the Empress Josephine ( Volume 2 ) at archive. org

Author Alexandre Dumas, père possessed one-fourth black Haitian descent, and Empress Josephine Napoleon who was born and raised in the French West Indies from a plantation estate family.

Charles XIV's son, Oscar I of Sweden, married Josephine of Leuchtenberg, granddaughter of Napoleon's first wife, the Empress Josephine.

She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as dame du palais in 1802.

She went on to appear as Cathy in her most famous film, Wuthering Heights ( opposite Laurence Olivier ; 1939 ), as George Sand in A Song to Remember ( 1945 ) and as the Empress Josephine in Désirée ( 1954 ).

The tiara provided by the last was made from elements of former papal tiaras destroyed after the capture of Rome, and was given to Pius VII as a ' wedding gift ' to mark Napoleon's own marriage to Empress Josephine on the eve of his imperial coronation.

* A life of Napoleon Bonaparte: with a sketch of Josephine, Empress of the French 1901 1909 1919

at Fontainebleau ( 1836 ); Sir David Baird Discovering the Body of Tippoo Sahib ( 1838 ); the Empress Josephine and the Fortune-Teller ( 1838 ); and Queen Victoria Presiding at her First Council ( 1838 ).

On 26 January 1835 Maria married, at the age of fifteen, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, son of Eugène de Beauharnais, and grandson of Empress Josephine.

Maria first married Auguste Charles, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, son of Eugène de Beauharnais, grandson of Empress Josephine, who died soon after arriving in Portugal.

A statue commemorating Martinique-born Empress Josephine, the wife of Napoleon, is in the gardens of La Savane.

The premiere was made possible with the help of Spontini's patron, the Empress Josephine, but only after being rearranged by Jean-Baptiste Rey and Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis.

* Life in a Jewish Family: Her Unfinished Autobiographical Account, translated by Josephine Koeppel, 1986, from The Collected Works of Edith Stein, Volume One, ICS Publications

* Her Royal Highness Princess Madeleine Thérèse Amelie Josephine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, born on 10 June 1982.

** Her Royal Highness Princess Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, born on 8 January 2011

Her memory of the luncheon supported the notion that Josephine was one of Harry's many passing fancies.

Her father was a school teacher and her mother Anne Josephine ( née Wilson ), who was an alcoholic, was an agricultural businesswoman from Ireland, where she was the manager of a market stall.

Her mother, Josephine Marie Ranch, was a tailor, and her father, Ernest Norman, a carpenter.

Her sister was Thereze Josephine van den Clooster.

Her father was the architect Bruce Price and her mother was Josephine ( Lee ) Price of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Her mother, Josephine, is a South African-born former model.

Her father, Gottfried Eissner, was a schoolmaster and church organist who was a devout Protestant, while her mother, Josephine Vitale Eissner, came from a middle-class family from Leipzig and was highly educated.

Her acting career dated back to the 1960s, when she was a popular teen idol alongside Connie Chan Po-chu, and Josephine Siao.

Her mother, Josephine, was a florist, and Tate has said that the character of Margaret in The Catherine Tate Show, who shrieks at the slightest of disturbances, is based largely on Josephine.

* Her Serene Highness Princess Norberta Elizabeth Mary Assumption Josephine Georgina et omnes sancti of Liechtenstein, Countess of Rietberg, Dowager Marchioness of Mariño

Her old friend from the Asilo, Josephine, visited her once and was terribly surprised by what she saw.

Her other grand children were Georgie Drew Mendum an actress ( from her daughter Louisa and Charles Mendum ) and Louise Drew ( Mrs Jack Devereaux ) also an actress ( from her son John Drew Jr and his wife Josephine ) as well as S. Rankin Drew, Sidney's son with his wife Gladys Rankin.

Her great grandfather, Frederick John Rogers, was a professor of physics and Chair of the Physics Department at Stanford University and his wife, Stiles ’ s great grandmother, was the colorful Josephine Rand Rogers, a president of The League of Women Voters, and politically active in the Temperance Movement and in passing Child Welfare Laws.

Her name is Willow Josephine Fedewa.

Her father Major Robert Reyntiens was Aide de Camp to King Leopold II of Belgium, whilst her mother Lady Alice Josephine Bertie was the daughter of the 7th Earl of Abingdon.

Her parents separated in 1893, and Josephine lived with her mother.