circa 1800: Corsican born soldier and Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) and his wife Josephine De Beauharnais (1763 - 1814). (Photo by Spencer Arnold Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Portrait of Joséphine de Beauharnais', 1812. Portrait of Joséphine de Beauharnais, the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte (1763-1814). Massot, Firmin (1766-1849). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Empress Josephine of France (1763 - 1814), wife of Napoleon I. Born Marie Josephine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, she became Josephine de Beauharnais after her first marriage to a French army officer. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
circa 1800: Napoleon I (1769 - 1821), emperor of France, leaving his despairing wife Josephine de Beauharnais with the words 'My destiny and France demand it'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
'Empress Josephine at Malmaison', c1801. (Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)
