About Émilie de Beauharnais
Lived 1781 – 1855 (aged 74). Émilie de Beauharnais was a French lady-in-waiting.
Émilie de Beauharnais, comtesse de Lavalette (; 1781–1855), was a French court official, dame d'atour to Empress Joséphine of France.
Life She was the daughter of François VI de Beauharnais and Françoise de Beauharnais and thus related to Joséphine. She married Comte Antoine Marie Chamans de Lavalette, on 22 April 1798.
She belonged to those called to be appointed when the first ladies-in-waiting were named for Joséphine. In 1804, when Napoleon named himself Emperor of France, and his wife Empress, he also created an Imperial court and had ladies-in-waiting appointed to Empress Josephine. Adélaïde de La Rochefoucauld was made dame d'honneur and de Beauharnais made dame d'atour, while Jeanne Charlotte du Luçay, Madame de Rémusat, Elisabeth Baude de Talhouët, Lauriston, d'Arberg, Marie Antoinette Duchâtel, Sophie de Segur, Séran, Colbert, Savary and Aglaé Louise Auguié Ney, were all made dame du Palais.
When Napoleon divorced Joséphine and married Marie Louise of Austria, in 1809, de Beauharnais retired and was replaced by Jeanne Charlotte du Luçay.
During the Bourbon Restoration, her spouse was sentenced to death, but she helped him escape and was herself imprisoned in 1815–16.
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Who was Émilie de Beauharnais?
French court official (1781-1855)
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Émilie de Beauharnais was born on 8 January 1781 in Paris.
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Émilie de Beauharnais died on 18 June 1855 in former 2nd arrondissement of Paris.
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Émilie de Beauharnais was a lady-in-waiting.
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Émilie de Beauharnais was French.
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