Vicomte de Beauharnais

Vicomet de Beauharnais, Alexandre (1760-1794) was a prominent French politician and general during the French Revolution, born at Martinique, where he married a lady who, afterwards as wife of Napoleon, became the Empress Joséphine. He accepted and took part in the Revolution. He was secretary of the National Assembly. He coolly remarked, on the news of the flight of the king, "The king's gone off; let us pass to the next business of the House". He was convicted of treachery to the cause of the Revolution and put to death. As the father of Hortense, who married Louis, Napoleon's brother, he became grandfather of Napoleon III.

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