The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Beauharnais, Hortense de
(ôrtäNs´ d bärn´) (KEY) , 17831837, queen of Holland (180610), daughter of Alexandre and Josephine de Beauharnais and wife of Louis Bonaparte. She was the mother of Napoleon III andby her lover, the comte de Flahautof the duc de Morny.