Background
The daughter of the receiver-general of finances in Champagne, whilst very young she married comte Claude de Beauharnais, uncle of Alexandre de Beauharnais and of François de Beauharnais.
The daughter of the receiver-general of finances in Champagne, whilst very young she married comte Claude de Beauharnais, uncle of Alexandre de Beauharnais and of François de Beauharnais.
She was the mother of French politician Claude de Beauharnais. She was the grandmother of Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden, and through her she is the ancestor of former royal families of Romania and Yugoslavia, and the present royal families of Belgium, of Luxembourg and of Monaco. She was godmother to Hortense de Beauharnais, Alexandre"s daughter by Marie Josèphe Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie, better known to history as Josephine.
In 1787 she wrote and put on a five-act prose comedy entitled la Fausse inconstance, though it was not a success.
In 1790 she was received into the Académie de Lyon. Her detractors attributed her work to Dorat and other friends of hers.
The marquise de Créquy, in his Souvenirs, adjudged that Lebrun had very rudely and unjustly applied to her an old epigram of Pavillon about Charlotte-Rose de Caumont Louisiana Force:.
Her salon became a choice social venue, and she became a member of the Académie des Arcades.