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His paternal grandparents Claude de Beauharnais ( 1680 - 1738) and Renee Hardouineau ( 1696 - 1744) were married in La Rochelle during 1713. His father François de Beauharnais , MarquessA Marquess is a nobleman of hereditary rank in Europe and Japan. In British peerage it ranks below a Duke and above an Earl. A woman with the rank of marquess, or the wife of a marquess, is a marchioness. The word derives from the Middle French marquis (f de la Ferte-Beauharnais ( 1714Events August 1 George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain. September 11 Barcelona surrenders to Spanish and French Borbonic armies in the War of the Spanish Succession. The Duchy of Savoy and Piedmont becomes the Kingdom of Sardini - 1800Events March 14 Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope Pius VII. March 21 Pius VII becomes Pope April 24 US Library of Congress founded. May 15 Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps and invades Italy. June 14 Battle of Marengo, Napoleon defeats the Au) served as a governor of Martinique . Alexandre was the third son born to him by his first wife Marie Henriette Pyvart de Chastullé ( 1722Events Abraham De Moivre states De Moivre's theorem connecting trigonometric functions and complex numbers Publication of the first book of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Fall of Persia's Safavid dynasty during a bloody revolt of the Afghani people. July 25 - 1767Events The Burmese invasion reaches the Thai capital of Ayutthaya, razing it. North Carolina woodsman Daniel Boone goes through the Cumberland Gap and reaches Kentucky in defiance of a decree from King George III. He discovers a rich hunting ground, conte). His father was remarried in 1796Events Edward Jenner develops vaccination, using cowpox to protect against smallpox February 1 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York March 9 Widow Josephine de Beauharnais marries General Napoleon Bonaparte. March 30 Carl Gauss obtained to Eugenie Tascher de la Pagerie ( 1739Events March 20 Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne, including the Kohinoor September 9 Stono Rebellion erupts near Charleston September 18 Treaty of Belgrade signed October 3 Treaty of Nissa sig - 1803Events January 30 Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans. They end completing the Louisiana Purchase. February 24 The Supreme Court of the United States, in Marbury v. Madison establishes the principle of judicial r).
Alexandre was born in Fort-Royal (today's Fort-de-France), Martinique. On December 13, 1779, he married Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie, the future Empress of France. They had two children:
Alexandre fought in Louis XVI's army in the American Revolutionary War. He was later deputy of the nobility at the Estates-General, and was president of the National Constituent Assembly from June 19 to July 3, 1791 and from July 31 to August 14, 1791. Made a general in 1792, he refused in June 1793 to become Ministry of War. He was named general in chief of the Army of the Rhine in 1793.
On March 2, 1794, the Committee of General Security ordered his arrest. Accused of having poorly defended Mayenne in 1793, and considered an aristocratic "suspect", he was jailed in the Carmes prison and sentenced to death, during the Reign of Terror. His wife was jailed in the same prison on April 21, 1794, but she was freed after three months, thanks to the trial of Robespierre. Alexandre was guillotined, together with his brother Augustin, on the Place de la Révolution (today's Place de la Concorde) in Paris.