François VI de Beauharnais, 2nd marquis de La Ferté-Beauharnais (also 3rd comte des Roches-Baritaud, baron de Beauville, seigneur de Beaumont et de Bellechauve; 12 August 1756,

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– 3 March 1846,

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) was a French nobleman. He was the son of

François V de Beauharnais François V de Beauharnais, Marquis de La Ferté-Beauharnais (16 January 1714, La Rochelle – 18 June 1800, Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French nobleman, soldier, politician, colonial governor and admiral. He was seigneur de Beaumont et de Belle ...

, seigneur de Beaumont et de Bellechauve, baron de Beauville, 1st marquis de La Ferté-Beauharnais, and of his wife Marie Anne Henriette Françoise Pyvart de Chastullé. This made him the elder brother of

Alexandre de Beauharnais Alexandre François Marie, Viscount of Beauharnais (; 28 May 1760 – 23 July 1794) was a French politician and general of the French Revolution. He was the first husband of Joséphine Tascher de La Pagerie, who later married Napoleon Bonaparte ...

and the uncle of

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's stepchildren Eugène and Hortense.

Life

He represented the nobility of

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of 1789, but later emigrated to join Condé's army as a major general. However, he later rallied to the

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, which sent him on various diplomatic missions. Francis VI of Beauharnais was one of the great-grandfathers of the family Eslandoost de Beauville.

Marriages and issue

On 1 May 1778 François de Beauharnais married his first cousin Françoise de Beauharnais (

, 7 September 1757 –

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, 24 June 1822), daughter of Claude de Beauharnais, 2nd comte des Roches-Baritaud, and wife Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard. They divorced in 1793, after having four daughters: * Adélaïde de Beauharnais (1779–1852) * Françoise de Beauharnais (1780–1780) *

Émilie de Beauharnais Émilie de Beauharnais, comtesse de Lavalette (; 1781–1855), was a French court official, '' dame d'atour'' to Empress Joséphine of France. Life She was the daughter of François VI de Beauharnais and Françoise de Beauharnais and thus relat ...

(1781–1855), court official, married on 22 April 1798 comte Antoine Marie Chamans de La Valette (1769–1830), whom she had saved. * Amédée de Beauharnais (1782–1784) On 11 October 1802, François de Beauharnais married Louise von Cohausen (1775–1822), daughter of Karl Caspar Hubertus,

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von Cohausen, and of Elisabeth Umbscheiden von Ehrencron. They had two daughters: * Hortense de Beauharnais (1812–1851), married in 1840 comte Richard de Querelles (1808–1846). On his death, she married in 1848 senator Armand Laity (1812–1899) * Augusta de Beauharnais (1813–1831) {{DEFAULTSORT:Francis 06 of Beauharnais 1756 births 1846 deaths House of Beauharnais Ambassadors of France to Spain