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Hortense was born in Paris, France, to Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie and Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais. After her father's execution during the Reign of Terror, her mother married Napoleon Bonaparte.
At Napoleon's request, Hortense married his brother Louis Bonaparte. Napoleon appointed the couple King and Queen of Holland. Although three sons were born to the marriage (one of them the future Napoleon III), it was an unhappy one (the identity of at least one of the children's fathers is open to debate), and they separated in 1810.
With her lover, the Count of Flahaut, Hortense gave birth to a fourth son, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph (1811-1865), later made Duke of MornyCharles Auguste Louis Joseph, duc de Morny ( October 21, 1811 March 10, 1865), French statesman, was the natural son of Hortense de Beauharnais (wife of Louis Bonaparte, and queen of Holland) and Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut, and therefore halfbrother by his half-brother, Emperor Napoleon III.
Despite the dissolution of his marriage to her mother, and the bad state of Hortense's marriage to Louis, Hortense supported Napoleon after his return from exile on ElbaSee Village of Elba, New York and Town of Elba, New York for the locations in the United States. Elba is an island in Tuscany, Italy, 20 km from the coastal town of Grosseto. It is the biggest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, and the third biggest Italia in 1815Events January 3 Austria, Britain, and France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia. January 8 War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans February 3 The first commercial cheese factory is founded in Switzerland February 6 New Jersey g. This led to her banishment from France after his final defeat. After travelling in GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east and ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer, Hortense bought the Château of Arenenberg in the SwissThe Swiss Confederation or Switzerland is a landlocked federal state in central Europe, with neighbours Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. The country has a strong tradition of political and military neutrality, but also of international c canton of ThurgauThurgau Thurgovia is a canton of Switzerland. It is located in the northeast of Switzerland. The population is 228,200 ( 2001). The capital is Frauenfeld. Geography To the north the canton is bound by the Lake Constance across which lies Germany. The rive, where she lived until her death on October 5, 1837.