Alexandre de Beauharnais
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Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais (born May 28, 1760 in Fort-de-France , Martinique , † July 23, 1794 ( guillotined ) in Paris ) was President of the French National Assembly shortly after the Revolution .
Life
Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais distinguished himself during the American Revolutionary War and later gained useful connections through his skills in Paris.
In 1779 he married Joséphine , who took Napoleon Bonaparte in her second marriage in 1796 . He was supposed to marry Joséphine's sister Catherine-Désirée Alexandre, who was three years younger than him, but she died of tuberculosis . The third sister, Marie Françoise, was only eleven years old. Eventually he accepted Joséphine as a woman - she was actually already too old for him at 16 years of age. The couple had two children, Eugène (1781-1824) and Hortense (1783-1837). The marriage was anything but happy, it came to a psychological and physical alienation and Alexandre even insinuated to his wife that their daughter was a cuckoo child. In 1785, the couple decided to separate with mutual consent.
He initially served as a Sous-lieutenant in the Régiment de La Sarre and entered the Régiment Royal-Champagne Cavalerie on June 3, 1784 , in which he was mentioned as a major in 1777 (major was not a rank, but a service title for the head of the regimental administration) becomes.
When the revolution broke out , he was one of the first noble members of parliament to convert to the Third Estate , and at the time of the king's flight in June 1791 he was even President of the National Assembly .
Soon afterwards he went to the Northern Army as adjutant general, refused to be appointed to the war ministry in 1792, but took over as general the supreme command of the first Rhine army in the following year , which he resigned when a government decree ordered the removal of the nobles from the army.
His long-term lover until his death was Amalie Zephyrine von Salm-Kyrburg , who was married to Prince Anton Aloys von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and was friends with Joséphine.
As a result of a false indictment in 1794, he was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal in Paris .
Alexandre de Beauharnais died at the age of 34 on July 23, 1794, four days before the fall of Robespierre and the end of the reign of terror , under the guillotine of the Place du Trône Renversé in Paris and was buried in one of the two mass graves of the Cimetière de Picpus cemetery.
The day before, he had written to Joséphine to take care of their children. His son Eugène was later adopted by Napoleon.
literature
- Karl Florentin Leidenfrost : French Heldensaal or the life, deeds and current fates of the most memorable heroes of the republic and the empire, in particular Napoleon's comrades in arms and marshals , Bernhard Friedrich Voigt , Ilmenau 1828, pp. 31-33.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sigrid-Maria Großering : To power and luck - fates of history , Amalthea Verlag.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
|
Luc Dauchy Joseph Defermon des Chapellières |
President of the French National Assembly June 19, 1791 - July 3, 1791 July 30, 1791 - August 13, 1791 |
Charles de Lameth Charles-Louis-Victor de Broglie |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beauharnais, Alexandre de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beauharnais, Alexandre Vicomte de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | President of the French National Assembly shortly after the Revolution |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1760 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort-de-France , Martinique |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1794 |
| Place of death | Paris |