BEAU HARN A IS

Alexandre, Viscount, bom in 1760 in Martin i que. He served with tinct i on as major in the French forces under chambeau which aided the United States in their revolutionary war, and married Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, who was afterwards the wife Napoleon. At the breaking out of the French volution he was chosen a member of the National A embly, of which he was for some time president, and whid i he opened, after the king's departure, with the following words: — ^Meuicura^ Urniest parti ntdt: pa ons A Vordre du jour," In 1792 he general of the army of the Rhine, and in 1793 fused the appointment of minister of war. In sequence of the decree removing men of noble birth from the army, he retired to hu country-seat. was falsely accused of having promoted the surrender of Mentz, and was sentenced to death July 23, 1794, when thirty-f our years old. (For information respecting his son Eugene, and his elder brother Fran9ois, see next two articles; respecting his daughter Hortense, see BoNiVPABTE, Louis.) BEAU HARN A IS, Eugene de, Duke of Lcuchtenberg, Prince of Eichstadt, ex-viceroy of Italy, bom September S, 1781. He was the son of Alexandre Beau ham a is (see above), who was guillotined in 1794, and Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, afterwards i\nfe of Napoleon and Empre of France. Boring the French revolution Eugene entered military service, and at the i^e of twelve years oompaniod his father when ho took the command the army of the Rhine. After his father's death he joined Hoche in La VendtJe, and subscviuently ■tadied for a time in Paris. In 1796 Josc'phine mairiod to Napoleon Bonaparte, then comniander-inohief of the army of Italy, and Eugene accompanied his father-in-law in his campai<;ns in Italy and Egj'pt. He was promoted to a high rank in the service, in 1805 created a prince of France and viceroy Italy. In the same year he diKtingiiiFlied himself the campaigns againht Austria, and after the jicocc sale. of January 13, 1806, married the Prince August i of Bavaria. In 1807 Napoleon made him Prince of Venice, and declared him his heir to the kingdom to of Italy. He administered the government of Italy with great prudence and moderation, and was much of beloved by his subjects. In the war of 1809 he was at first unsucce ful against the Archduke John, but was soon afterwards gain^ the battle of Raab, and distinguished himseU at Wagram. He conducted him to self with great prudence on the occasion of the divorce and of Napoleon from his mother. In the Ru ian campaign he commanded the third corpt damiU, and he distinguished himself in the battles of Ostrowno, Mohilo, and that on the Moakwa (Borodino). In the disastrous retreat he did not desert the wrecks of his as division for a moment, but shared its toils and dangers with the soldiers, and encouraged them by his example. To him and to Ney France was indebted the for the preservation of the remains of her army during that fatal retreat. On the departure of Napoleon and Murat he was left in the chidF command, and showed wall great talent at that dangerous conjuncture. We find still him again at the battle of Liitzen, of May 2, 1813, where, by surrounding the right wing of the enemy, an he decided the fate of the day. Napoleon sent him from Dresden to the defence of Italy, now menaced by the enemy's forces, where military operations commenced after the di olution of the ccngre of Prague, a and the acce ion of Austria to the league of the allied powers. Eugene maintained the defence of Italy even after the desertion of Murat. After the fall of Napoleon he concluded an anmstice with Count Bellegarde, by which he delivered Lombardy and all Upper Italy to the Austrians. Eugene then went was immediately to Paris, and thence to his father-in-law dis at Munich. He was at the Congre of Vienna. On Rothe return of Napoleon from Elba he was obliged to leave Vienna and retire to Baireuth. He was an inactive spectator of the events in 1815. By an ordinof ance of the King of Bavaria, his father-in-law, he was recreated Duke of Leuch ten berg, November, 1817. The Bavarian principality of Eichstadt was bestowed upon him, and his posterity declared capable of inheriting in case of the failure of the Bavarian line. He died at Munich, February 21, 1824, leaving two cette sons and four daughters. Prince Eugene, under a was resimple exterior, concealed a noble character and great con talents. Honour, integrity, humanity, and love of order and justice were the principal traits of Yoa He character. Wise in the council, undaunted in the field, and moderate in the exercise of power, he never appeared greater than in the midst of reverses, as the events of 1813-1814 prove. See Vie Politique et Militaire d'Eug^nc Beau ham a is, Vice-roi d'ltalic, by Aubriet (second edition, Paris, 1825).