BEAUHARNAIS

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BEAUHARNAIS , the name of a French family, well known from the 15th century onward in Orleanais, where its members occupied honourable positions. One of them, Jean Jacques de Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion, had for wife Marie Bonneau, who in 1661 founded a female charitable order, called after her the Miramiones. Francois de Beauharnais, marquis de la Ferte-Beauharnais, was a

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

in the states-general of 1789, and a devoted defender of the monarchy. He emigrated And served in

Conde

's army. Later he gave his adherence to

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

, and became

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

in Etruria and Spain; he died in 1823. His brother Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais, married Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (afterwards the wife of

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

Bonaparte) and had two children by herEugene de Beauharnais (q.v.) and Hortense, who married Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland, and became

mother

MOTHER

of Napoleon III. Claude de Beauharnais, comte des Roches-Baritaud, uncle of the marquis and of the vicomte de Beauharnais, served in the navy and became a vice-

admiral

ADMIRAL

. He married Marie Anne Francoise (called Fanny) Mouchard, a woman of letters who had a celebrated salon. His son, also named Claude (d. 1819), was created a peer of France in 1814, and was the father of Stephanie de Beauharnais, who married the grand-duke of Baden. The

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Beauharnais is still represented in

Russia

RUSSIA
RUSSIA (Rossiya)

by the dukes of Leuchtenberg, descendants of Prince

Eugene

EUGENE

. (M. P.*)

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