Our 7th French fashion key was Josephine…

… Napoleon married Josephine with specific intent to get an heir.  Josephine was the widow of a French General, & came to the marriage with 2 children.  She never gave Napoleon his own heir, so he divorced her.  Her daughter, Hortense, would carry on the Bonaparte line.

Reigning houses of Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, & Luxembourg came from Josephine’s children.

(portrait:  Empress Josephine in her coronation gown, 1804-5)