Hortense gave birth to Napoleon III…

She ended up loving the country & all who lived there, & when her son, Napoleon III died as a child in 1807, she returned to France, where she was embraced back into the culture.

(portrait:  Hortense daughter of Josephine who was wife then ex of Napoleon Bonaparte I.  Hortense married Napoleon’s brother Louis in an unhappy marriage.  She was quite the society & fashion mogul)