Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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mistress of Emperor Napoleon I
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne
- Eléonore Denuelle (13 September 1787 – 30 January 1868) was a mistress of Emperor Napoleon I of France and the mother of his son Charles, Count Léon.
- Her son was proof that Napoleon was capable of producing an heir and that his wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais, was infertile; as a result, he divorced Joséphine and married Marie Louise of Austria. She was born Louise Catherine Eléonore Denuelle de la Plaigne into a middle-class family, by reports of the day was pretty and witty, and was married at the age of 18 to a former army captain, Jean-François Revel-Honoré.
- Her husband was arrested for fraud three months into the marriage, and sentenced to two years in prison.
- On 29 April 1806, the couple were granted a divorce. Shortly afterward she became a mistress to the Emperor Napoleon, an arrangement set up by his sister Caroline Bonaparte, and in less than a year their illegitimate son, Count Léon, was born.
- He was Napoleon's first illegitimate child, and proof that Napoleon was capable of fathering a child, establishing that his wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais, was infertile. In 1808, the Emperor Napoleon arranged a marriage for her to a young lieutenant, Pierre-Philippe Augier of Sauzay, in order to end the royal affair.
- She was paid a hefty dowry by the emperor, and the newly married couple departed for Spain.
- Augier was listed as missing in action on 28 November 1812 during Napoleon's Russian Campaign.
- Newly widowed, she married Count Charles-Emile-Auguste-Louis de Luxbourg in 1814.
- She remained with her third husband until his death 35 years later.
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François Gérard
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| Alternative names | François Pascal Simon Gérard | ||
| Description | French painter, aquarellist and illustrator | ||
| Date of birth/death | 12 March 1770 | 11 January 1837 | |
| Location of birth/death | Rome | Paris | |
| Work period | from 1782 until 1837 | ||
| Work location | Paris (1782-1790), Rome (1790-1792), Paris (1792-1837) | ||
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