The wealthy Genevan philanthropist Jean-Jacques de Sellon, who owned the property until 1839, gave accommodation at the castle to, amongst many others, such political refugees as Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte, Joséphine de Beauharnais, the Duke of Bassano, the Count Camille Cavour, Voltaire as well as to Franz Liszt and George Sand.
The wealthy Genevan philanthropist Count Jean-Jacques de Sellon, who owned the property until 1839, gave accommodation at the castle to, amongst many others, such political refugees as Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte, Joséphine de Beauharnais, the Duke of Bassano, the Count Camille Cavour, Voltaire as well as to Franz Liszt and George Sand.
At that time he had no legitimate sons, and it seemed unlikely he would have any due to the age of his wife Joséphine.
Legend has it the shape of the glass was modelled on the breast of Marie Antoinette, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Madame de Pompadour, or one of several other French aristocrats, although this is almost certainly false.
As such a match would be greatly desirable to British fortunes, Granby is pressured into the role, despite a private confession to Laurence of his own homosexuality, and the two are practically at the altar when a new suitor arrives to press his claim: Napoleon himself, lately divorced from Joséphine de Beauharnais and eligible for remarriage.
Some authors state that this plant first flowered in the garden of Château de Malmaison, belonging to the late Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais.
In particular, an antique chandelier from the Chateau Malmaison, the retreat for Napoleon and Josephine, and owned by the Caldwell firm, was replicated for the Board members' offices.
At Milan she was received with much favour by the Joséphine de Beauharnais, and here she met a young Frenchman, M. Felissent, to whom she was married in 1799.
An act of the territorial legislature of December 18, 1856 changed the name from "Kirbeyville" to "Napoleon", possibly because of the association of Napoleon with the name Josephine.
The Emperor planned to divorce Josephine and instead marry Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma and maintaining an affair with another woman seemed inappropriate.
Before Medea, the Musical he wrote and directed Mary! (a musical take on Mary Stuart), Oresteia: The Musical, Cleopatra: the Musical, and Napoleon: The Camp-Drag-Disco-Musical Extravaganza (in which upon discovering that Joséphine de Beauharnais is actually a man, Napoeon decides he is gay and liberates Europe so that all gays can be free).
Despite everything, the princess maintained good relations with a number of influential figures of the Revolution, as Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand and Joséphine de Beauharnais, widow of her lover Alexandre and later wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Soufrière has some famous inhabitants, the future Empress of France Joséphine de Beauharnais spent much of her childhood in the area, as well as George Charles, the first Premier of St Lucia.
Meanwhile, Gertrude imagines that Eugenia will be like the lithograph of Empress Josephine hung in the Wentworth's parlor.
Josephine Baker | Joséphine de Beauharnais | Josephine | Eugène de Beauharnais | Stéphanie de Beauharnais | Hortense de Beauharnais | Josephine Herbst | Josephine Hopper | Josephine Dickinson | Josephine County | Josephine Collective | Josephine Butler | Joséphine | House of Beauharnais | Steve Beauharnais | Sara Josephine Baker | Mary Josephine Booth | Josephine Veasey | Josephine Tey | Josephine Teo | Josephine Shaw Lowell | Josephine Porter Boardman | Josephine Koo | Josephine Johnson | Josephine Hull | Josephine Haas (later ''Haas von Längenfeld-Pfalzheim'') | Josephine G. Fountain | Josephine Elder | Josephine Earp | Josephine Douglas |
A portrait of Napoleon from 1807 (produced by Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet) and one of his wife Joséphine from 1805 (made by Robert Lefèvre) are viewable as part of the tour.
Having quadrupled the area of Baden, Charles Frederick died in June 1811, and was succeeded by his grandson, Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, who was married to Stéphanie de Beauharnais (1789–1860), a cousin of Empress Josephine's first husband who had been adopted by Napoleon I.
In 1802, after the Peace of Amiens, she took her younger daughter, Georgiana (Gordon Castle, 18 July 1781 – Nice, 24 February 1853), to Paris with a view to marrying her to the son of the Empress Joséphine, Eugène de Beauharnais.
The collection was a heritage from Napoleonic times through Joséphine de Beauharnais, but with new additions by the subsequent Dukes, especially Eugène de Beauharnais.
At the beginning of the nineteenth century Aachen and the Rheinland were under French occupation and in 1804 Empress Joséphine, wife of Napoleon, visited Aachen.
On 23 April 1802 it became the property of empress Joséphine de Beauharnais, who wished to merge it with her Malmaison estate, but it returned to being state property on her divorce from Napoleon in 1809.
The nearby plantation at Anse Mamin is reputed to be the birthplace of Napoleon's Empress Josephine de Beauharnais.