Essays Tagged: "Hortense"

Josephine's Early Life (Napoleon's first wife)

ch officer, Vicomte Alexandre Beauharnais, in 1779. They had two children a boy, Eugene and a girl, Hortense. Her marriage to him was an unhappy one because he was always chasing after women and she h ...

(2 pages) 28 1 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Napoleon's Life

Nephew of Napoleon I, being the son of Louis Bonaparte (the King of Holland) and Hortense the Beauhanais. After the death of his elder brothers he inherited the Bonaparte claim to t ... imself for a while in New York, but when by his friend Dr. Conneau sent him message that his mother Hortense was dying ('Venez, venez!') he took the ship George Washington to London. Using a Swiss pas ... gnito to Arenenberg; the French agents that were put on his track failed to stop him and he reached Hortense in time on August 4th, 1837. She died two months later.In 1840 his second coup d'état ...

(2 pages) 1080 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

"An American Tragedy" Book I by Theodore Draiser

a common language with the local social circles, Clyde sets his eye on a beautiful and lively girl Hortense. But she is the one about whom we're used to call material girl. She likes none of the boys ...

(2 pages) 2494 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Films are primarily concerned with the issues of everyday people

hing with lace curtains and all sorts of knickknacks occupying the shelves. This is contrasted with Hortense- the daughter that is by nature, hers, but by nurture, not. We see her pictured in her apar ... ted by Cynthia as a mother because she has not been raised by her. After first meeting, Cynthia and Hortense have tea at a cafe together. With Hortense's decline of Cynthia's offer of a cigarette, we ...

(8 pages) 1 0 0.0 Aug/2014

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues