JOSEPHINE, EMPRESS AND QUEEN

ANDRIEU, Bertrand: France, 1805, Lead-filled Bronze, 68 mm
Obv: Bust of Josephine (r)    JOSEPHINE IMP. ET REINE.
Rev: Uniface
Signed:  ANDRIEU. F.
Lead-filled bronze cliché, part of boxed set
Ref: Forrer I, p53; Bramsen 476; Julius 1506; TN. 7.13;  Europese Penningen # 1705; Weiss BW390

Josephine de Beauharnais (1763-1814), Consort of Napoleon I, was empress of the French from 1804 to 1809. She married Napoleon in 1796 but her extravagance and inability to bear him a son caused Napoleon to obtain an annulment of their marriage in 1809.  Her daughter Hortense was the mother of  Napoleon III.

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