Alexandre François Marie de Beauharnais

See also: Beauharnais

Alexandre François Marie, Viscount of Beauharnais , born with Extremely-Royal Martinique, the May 28th 1760, died in Paris, the July 23rd 1794.

He is the brother of François de Beauharnais. He entered the 1st company of the Mousquetaires in 1775, was second lieutenant in the Régiment of Saar-infantry.

Captain in 1779, it married the December 13rd 1779 with Noisy-the-Large, Marie Pink Josèphe Tascher of Pagerie, better known under the name of Joséphine de Beauharnais, future empress of French, of which it had two children, Eugene in 1781 and Hortense in 1783.

In 1784, it was useful in the Régiment Royal-Champagne - cavalry and was major in 1788.

The Bailliage of Blois sent it like representative of the nobility to the General states, then with the constituent Assembly, where it occupied the armchair of the presidency at the time of the escape of the king.

At the end of the constituent Assembly, he became adjudant-general and left for the Armée with North; it ordered the camp of Soissons, under the orders of Custine. The September 7th 1792, it was promoted brigadier (brigadier general) and the March 8th 1793, Major general. The May 23rd 1793, he became general-in-chief of the Armée with the Rhine. The June 13rd 1793, it was named Ministre for the War, but it refused.

After the loss of Mainz, he resigned and returned at his place. Decree in January 1794, it appeared before the revolutionary Tribunal for treason and complicity of conspiracy in the Prison of the Carmelite friars, was condemned to died and guillotine on Thermidor 5 An II (July 23rd 1794) on the place of the Throne with Paris and buried in one of the pits of the Cimetière Picpus.

He was the lover of Amélie Zéphyrine de Salm-Kyrburg wife of the prince Aloys Antoine de Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

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