Empress Josephine's Birthplace, Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique, 1882

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Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie was born in Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique to a wealthy white Creole family that owned a sugar plantation. She was a daughter of Joseph-Gaspard Tascher (1735–1790), chevalier, Seigneur de la Pagerie, lieutenant of Troupes de Marine, and his wife, the former Rose-Claire des Vergers de Sannois (1736–1807), whose maternal grandfather, Anthony Brown, was Irish.

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Location: Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique
Photo credit: © Caribbean Photo Archive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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