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Désirée Clary

1777 - 1860

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Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary (Swedish: Eugenia Bernhardina Desideria; 8 November 1777 – 17 December 1860) was Queen of Sweden and Norway from 5 February 1818 to 8 March 1844 as the wife of King Charles XIV John. Charles John was a French general and founder of the House of Bernadotte. Désirée Clary, the mother of Oscar I, was the one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte. Her name was officially changed in Sweden to Desideria although she did not use that name. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Désirée Clary is the 70th most popular companion (down from 45th in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from France (down from 284th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Companion.

Désirée Clary is most famous for being the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Among companions, Désirée Clary ranks 70 out of 784. Before her are Magda Goebbels, Neilia Hunter Biden, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Anne of Cleves, Queen Sonja of Norway, and Mary Tudor, Queen of France. After her are Zainab bint Muhammad, Elisabeth of Valois, Zayd ibn Harithah, Julia Domna, Claude of France, and Anne of Kiev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Désirée Clary ranks 4. Before her are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Hans Christian Ørsted, and Alexander I of Russia. After her are Henry Clay, Heinrich von Kleist, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Elisa Bonaparte, John Ross, Philipp Otto Runge, Juliette Récamier, and Louis Jacques Thénard. Among people deceased in 1860, Désirée Clary ranks 3. Before her are Arthur Schopenhauer, and Phineas Gage. After her are Jérôme Bonaparte, János Bolyai, Alexandra Feodorovna, Charles Goodyear, Miloš Obrenović, Stéphanie de Beauharnais, István Széchenyi, Danilo I, Prince of Montenegro, and Lady Byron.

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In France

Among people born in France, Désirée Clary ranks 344 out of 6,770. Before her are Chlothar I (498), Salome Zourabichvili (1952), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645), Pope Stephen IX (1020), Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786), and Adolphe Thiers (1797). After her are Constantine II (316), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Sophie Germain (1776), Olivier Messiaen (1908), Éliphas Lévi (1810), and Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1275).

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Among COMPANIONS In France

Among companions born in France, Désirée Clary ranks 8. Before her are Catherine of Valois (1401), Henrietta Maria of France (1609), Madame du Barry (1743), Brigitte Macron (1953), Joseph Bonaparte (1768), and Philippa of Hainault (1314). After her are Elisabeth of Valois (1545), Claude of France (1499), Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Isabella of France (1295), and Emma of Normandy (985).

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