MILITARY PERSONNEL

Eugène de Beauharnais

1781 - 1824

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Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (French: [øʒɛn də boaʁnɛ]; 3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824) was a French nobleman, statesman, and military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Through the second marriage of his mother, Joséphine de Beauharnais, he was the stepson of Napoleon Bonaparte. Under the French Empire he also became Napoleon's adopted son (but not the heir to the imperial throne). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène de Beauharnais has received more than 1,091,480 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Eugène de Beauharnais is the 32nd most popular military personnel (up from 80th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from France (up from 287th in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Military Personnel.

Eugène de Beauharnais was a French nobleman and general who was married to Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie, the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Eugène de Beauharnais ranks 32 out of 2,058. Before him are Cesare Borgia, Jan Žižka, Wilhelm Keitel, Guan Yu, Vercingetorix, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. After him are Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Belisarius, Alfred Dreyfus, Simo Häyhä, Pyrrhus of Epirus, and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1781, Eugène de Beauharnais ranks 1. After him are George Stephenson, Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Bernard Bolzano, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, René Laennec, Siméon Denis Poisson, Stamford Raffles, Adelbert von Chamisso, William I of Württemberg, Anton Diabelli, and Achim von Arnim. Among people deceased in 1824, Eugène de Beauharnais ranks 3. Before him are Lord Byron, and Louis XVIII of France. After him are Théodore Géricault, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Agustín de Iturbide, James Parkinson, Giovanni Battista Viotti, Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès, and Rama II of Siam.

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In France

Among people born in France, Eugène de Beauharnais ranks 150 out of 6,770. Before him are Joseph Bonaparte (1768), François Hollande (1954), Pope Clement V (1264), Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754), Charles IX of France (1550), and Georges Braque (1882). After him are Pope John XXII (1244), Zinedine Zidane (1972), Henry II of England (1133), Petronius (27), Évariste Galois (1811), and Jean-François Millet (1814).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In France

Among military personnels born in France, Eugène de Beauharnais ranks 4. Before him are Joan of Arc (1412), Charles de Gaulle (1890), and Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763). After him are Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663), Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan (1611), Ferdinand Foch (1851), Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Theodor Eicke (1892), Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), and Jean Lannes (1769).

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