Alexandre de Beauharnais
Beauharnais was born in Fort-Royal (now Fort-de-France), Martinique. He was the son of a governor,  François de Beauharnais, Marquess de la La Ferté-Beauharnais, and his wife Marie Anne Henriette Françoise Pyvart de Chastullé. Beauharnais’ parents decided that it would be a good idea to arrange him to marry someone. And so he did on On 13 December 1779, in Paris to the 16 year old Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie. There marriage was not happy as Beauharnais said he was only marrying because his father forced him to do so. They had 2 children together, Eugène and Hortense.