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Désirée Clary

1777 - 1860

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Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary (Swedish: Eugenia Bernhardina Desideria; 8 November 1777 – 17 December 1860) was Queen of Sweden and Norway from 5 February 1818 to 8 March 1844 as the wife of King Charles XIV John. Charles John was a French general and founder of the House of Bernadotte. Désirée Clary, the mother of Oscar I, was the one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Désirée Clary has received more than 937,497 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Désirée Clary is the 45th most popular companion (down from 42nd in 2019), the 284th most popular biography from France (down from 270th in 2019) and the 5th most popular French Companion.

Désirée Clary is most famous for being the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.15

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  • 2.68

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Désirée Clary ranks 45 out of 784. Before her are Catherine Howard, Queen Sonja of Norway, Salman the Persian, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, and Anne of Cleves. After her are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Zainab bint Muhammad, Elizabeth of York, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Priscilla Presley, and Dinah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Désirée Clary ranks 4. Before her are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Hans Christian Ørsted, and Alexander I of Russia. After her are Heinrich von Kleist, Henry Clay, Elisa Bonaparte, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Juliette Récamier, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, Philipp Otto Runge, and Louis Jacques Thénard. Among people deceased in 1860, Désirée Clary ranks 3. Before her are Arthur Schopenhauer, and Phineas Gage. After her are Jérôme Bonaparte, Alexandra Feodorovna, Miloš Obrenović, Charles Goodyear, János Bolyai, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Julia Pastrana, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, and Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro.

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In France

Among people born in France, Désirée Clary ranks 284 out of 6,770. Before her are Philip the Good (1396), Paul Signac (1863), Charlotte Corday (1768), Gilles de Rais (1405), Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1058), and Frédéric Mistral (1830). After her are Pope Sylvester II (938), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), Francis de Sales (1567), Mireille Mathieu (1946), Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767), and Roger Vadim (1928).

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Among COMPANIONS In France

Among companions born in France, Désirée Clary ranks 5. Before her are Madame de Pompadour (1721), Madame du Barry (1743), Joseph Bonaparte (1768), and Hortense de Beauharnais (1783). After her are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), Elisabeth of Valois (1545), Brigitte Macron (1953), Isabella of France (1295), Julie Clary (1771), Marie of Anjou (1404), and Emma of Normandy (985).

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