Josephine, Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie (1763–1814)
As wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, she was empress of France 1804–09. Born on the island of Martinique, she married in 1779 Alexandre de Beauharnais, who played a part in the French Revolution, and in 1796 Napoleon, who divorced her in 1809 because she had not produced children.
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