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The French Empress Josephine
Portrait of the French Empress Josephine of Beauharnais (first wife of Napoleon I) by the painter Jean Louis Viger, a plate of the dining service of Napoleon I in the Tuileries and French Empire style patterns. Joséphine de Beauharnais (1763-1814) was the first wife of Napoleon I (1796-1809). She was crowned French Empress in 1804.