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BEAUHARNAIS , the name of a See also:French See also:family, well known from the 15th See also:century onward in See also:Orleanais, where its members occupied See also:honourable positions. One of them, See also:Jean Jacques de Beauharnais, seigneur de Miramion, had for wife See also:Marie Bonneau, who in 1661 founded a See also:female charitable See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, called after her the Miramiones. See also:Francois de Beauharnais, See also:marquis de la Ferte-Beauharnais, was a See also:deputy in the states-See also:general of 1789, and a devoted defender of the See also:monarchy. He emigrated And served in See also:Conde's See also:army. Later he gave his adherence to See also:Napoleon, and became See also:ambassador in See also:Etruria and See also:Spain; he died in 1823. His See also:brother See also:Alexandre, vicomte de Beauharnais, married See also:Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie (afterwards the wife of Napoleon See also:Bonaparte) and had two See also:children by her—Eugene de Beauharnais (q.v.) and Hortense, who married See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Bonaparte, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and became See also:mother of Napoleon III. See also:Claude de Beauharnais, See also:comte See also:des Roches-Baritaud, See also:uncle of the marquis and of the vicomte de Beauharnais, served in the See also:navy and became a See also:vice-See also:admiral. He married Marie See also:Anne Francoise (called Fanny) Mouchard, a woman of letters who had a celebrated See also:salon. His son, also named Claude (d. 1819), was created a peer of See also:France in 1814, and was the See also:father of Stephanie de Beauharnais, who married the See also:grand-See also:duke of See also:Baden. The See also:house of Beauharnais is still represented in See also:Russia by the See also:dukes of Leuchtenberg, descendants of See also:Prince See also:Eugene. (M.
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