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Beauharnais (ALEXANDRE VICOMTE DE born)

ALEXANDRE, VICOMTE DE, born at Martinique, 1760. He served under Rochambeau in the War of American Independence. On his afterward taking up his residence in France, he was elected a Deputy to the States-General, where he espoused the Democratic or Liberal party, became President of the National Assembly, and played a conspicuous part in the Revolution. Beauharnais served with distinction in the French army, but became ultimately a victim to the Revolutionary Tribunal just previous to the fall of Robespierre, in 1794. His widow, Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, became the first wife of Napoleon I. in 1796.