Harnais
(hor-tens'), daughter of Josephine, the consort of Napoleon I., and of the Vicomte de Beauharnais, her first husband; born in Paris in 1783. She was married to Louis Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon, in 1802. In 1806 Hortense became queen-consort of Holland, and about a year afterward was separated from her husband after giving birth to three sons: (1) Napoleon Charles, who died in infancy. (2) Napoleon Louis, who was killed in an insurrection at Romagna, 1832; and (3) Louis Napoleon, the last emperor of the French. In 1814 she was made the Duchess of Saint-Leu. After the Hundred Days she was forced to fly from France, and in 1817 settled in the castle of Arenenberg, Thurgau, Switzerland, where she spent a large part of her time. She died Oct. 5, 1837.
HORTENSIUS