… again as they begin the line that continues to make today’s final connections of royalty in the world.
Hortense was Empress Josephine’s daughter by a first marriage. Josephine was Napoleon I’s first wife. Louis was one of Napoleon’s middle brothers.
(portrait: Hortense de Beauharnais who would marry Louis Bonaparte; shown with the son that would become Napoleon III, heir to the French Empire AND President of the French Republic)