JOSEPHINE, MARIE ROSE

(17631814), an empre of the French and first wife of Napoleon, 6. at Trois Islets, Martin i que, her father being captain of the port of Saint Pierre. Her maiden name was Tascher de la Pagerie, and shé first married the Vicomte de Beauhat+ nais, by whom she had 2, son HKugéne, viceroy of Italy, and a daughter Hortense afterwards Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III. Beau harn a is was guillotined during the Reign of Terror (1794), and two years later his widow married Napoleon Bonaparte. She exercised a great influence over the emperor, and at Luxembourg and the Tuileries attracted around her the most brilliant society of France, but the union proving unfruitful, the marriage was di olved in 1809, and the following year Napoleon..married. Maria Louisa. of Ausiria. D.), celebrated Jewish historian; became a Pharisee; was leader in Jewish rebellion in Galilee, but on his capture was spared by Vespas i an, and subsequently marched with Titus against Jerusalem; author of Jewish Antiquities and The Jewish War, both dealing with | history of the Jews. |