Alexandre de Beauharnais
Alexandre de Beauharnais | |
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Charles de Lameth | |
| In office 31 July – 13 August 1791 | |
| Preceded by | Jacques Defermon des Chapelières |
| Succeeded by | Victor de Broglie |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 May 1760 France |
| Resting place | Picpus Cemetery, Paris |
| Spouse |
Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie (m. 1779) |
| Children | Army of the Rhine |
| Battles/wars | American Revolutionary War French Revolutionary Wars |
Alexandre François Marie, Viscount of Beauharnais (28 May 1760 – 23 July 1794) was a French politician and general of the
Family
Beauharnais was born to the noble
Career
Beauharnais began his military career in an infantry regiment at Martinique.
Beauharnais played a prominent role in the succeeding
Death
On 2 March 1794, the Committee of General Security ordered his arrest. Accused of having poorly defended Mainz during the siege in 1793, and considered an aristocratic suspect, he was jailed in Carmes Prison and sentenced to death during the Reign of Terror.[1] His wife, Joséphine, was jailed in the same prison on 21 April 1794 but was freed three months later, thanks to the fall of Maximilien Robespierre. Beauharnais was guillotined, together with his cousin Augustin, on the Place de la Révolution (today's Place de la Concorde) in Paris on 23 July 1794, five days before the end of the Reign of Terror.[1]
References
External links
- Marek, Miroslav. "A listing of the descendants of the Beauharnais family". genealogy.euweb.cz.
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