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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 852,599 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Désirée Clary is the 42nd most popular companion (up from 68th in 2019), the 270th most popular biography from France (up from 359th 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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  • 71.43

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  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among companions, Désirée Clary ranks 42 out of 673. Before her are Madame du Barry, Catherine Parr, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Magda Goebbels, Salman the Persian, and Marie Leszczyńska. After her are Caroline of Ansbach, Elizabeth Woodville, Mary Boleyn, Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, and Elisabeth of Valois.

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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, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Elisa Bonaparte, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, Juliette Récamier, Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Philipp Otto Runge. Among people deceased in 1860, Désirée Clary ranks 3. Before her are Arthur Schopenhauer and Phineas Gage. After her are Jérôme Bonaparte, Alexandra Feodorovna, Charles Goodyear, János Bolyai, Miloš Obrenović, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, William Walker, and István Széchenyi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Désirée Clary ranks 270 out of 6,011. Before her are Pope Callixtus II (1065), Josquin des Prez (1450), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), and Jules Massenet (1842). After her are François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Camille Claudel (1864), John the Fearless (1371), Jean Gabin (1904), Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640), and Gabriel Fauré (1845).

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Among COMPANIONS In France

Among companions born in France, Désirée Clary ranks 5. Before her are Madame de Pompadour (1721), Joseph Bonaparte (1768), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), and Madame du Barry (1743). After her are Elisabeth of Valois (1545), Isabella of France (1295), Claude of France (1499), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Brigitte Macron (1953), Emma of Normandy (985), and Henrietta Maria of France (1609).

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