International Women's Rights Day: Portraits of Marseillaises that make history
The revolution comes: the convent closes its doors hurriedly, Désirée joins its parents in Marseille.It's the turn: she meets a family of Corsican little nobility who took refuge in France ... Les Bonaparte!Joseph and Napoleon are brothers, both distinguished themselves in their defense of the young Republic.Napoleon Bonaparte, hero of the Toulon taking, is general, promoted to the organization of the defense of Marseille.He sets his sights on the young desired, courtes her and getting engaged with her in 1795.Joseph Bonaparte married Julie, the older sister of Désirée, a year before.Mrs. Clary will exclaim "I have already enough a bonaparte in the family!»».Nevertheless, the alliance with the Bonaparte brings to clary, protection and opportunities ...
Disappointment in love and new life
A new deal named Joséphine de Beauharnais - his real name Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher of the page - comes to upset an arrangement that seems to satisfy everyone.Indeed, Napoleon Bonaparte, then back in Paris, falls in love with this six -year -old woman her elder.She is the widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais, a revolutionary executed during the terror.Napoleon Bonaparte officially broke his engagement with Désirée on September 6, 1795 and married the one he renamed "Joséphine" in March 1796.Desired, she will no longer designate the woman of her old fiancé but by this nickname little leads: "the old".Humiliated, the Clary family leaves for Italy, because Joseph, brother-in-law of Désirée, officiates on a diplomatic mission.
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Paris, Sweden, marriage
In 1798, the Clary left Italy and settled in Paris.Désirée then meets General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, fierce political adversary of Napoleon Bonaparte, the two men hate each other.For Désirée, no doubt, Jean-Baptiste embodies the man she was waiting for!They married on June 17, 1798, their son Oscar was born on July 4, 1799.Around the 180s, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte illustrated in the Napoleonic countryside and is raised to the rank of Marshal of Empire, the highest military distinction ... This beautiful agreement does not last: Napoleon Bonaparte and Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte are blurringagain.In 1811, Désirée and her husband settled in Sweden after the latter was elected Crown Prince of Sweden.The country's climate and the customs of the court are unbearable to Désirée who returns to live alone in Paris after a few months.Her Parisian position and her relations with Napoleon make him an ideal spying for her husband.For his part, the emperor intends to use it for his benefit.It thus becomes a kind of "double agent" in these times when the relationships between the Empire and Sweden are stormy ...
End of the Empire, new scandal
Napoleon abdicated in 1814, returned to power briefly to leave him definitively in 1815.France becomes a monarchy, constitutional this time, is the restoration.Désirée, which still evolves in the upper spheres of power, falls in love with a certain Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis de Richelieu, President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Louis XVIII.Richelieu died in Paris on May 17, 1822 without having-it is said-offered nothing more to desired than waves promises.But desired is so affected that it decides to wear the big mourning, which scandalizes.
Her husband has meanwhile become king on February 5, 1818 under the name of Charles XIV Jean… resigned, Désirée returned to Sweden in 1823.She was herself crowned Queen of Sweden on August 21, 1829 under the name of "His Majesty Desideria".His son Oscar succeeded his father in 1844.Désirée died in Stockholm in 1860 at the age of 83.She leaves a royal line, including the current king of Sweden, Charles XVI of Sweden ... in the veins of which flows a little Marseille blood!
