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Désirée Clary was born in Marseille, France, the daughter of François Clary (Marseille, St. Ferreol, 24 February 1725 – Marseille, 20 January 1794), a wealthy silk manufacturer and merchant, by his second wife (m. 26 June 1759) Françoise Rose Somis (Marseille, St. Ferreol, 30 August 1737 – Paris, 28 January 1815).
In 1794, in Marseille, Désirée Clary makes the acquaintance of a Corsican, Joseph Bonaparte, and invites him and his brother, Captain Napoleon Bonaparte, to call upon the family the following day. The next day, Julie , Désirée's sister, and Joseph are immediately attracted to each other, and Napoleon is taken with Désirée.
Le Destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary (Mlle. Desiree) is a French film released in September 1942, black and white, written and directed by Sacha Guitry. [1] The film concerns the life of Désirée Clary, the daughter of a Marseilles merchant, who became Queen of Sweden and the founder of a dynasty.
Marie-Anne Elisabeth "Elise" la Flotte, or de Flotte, née Reboul (1779 in Smyrna – 25 March 1815 in Paris), was a French lady's companion, lady-in-waiting of the French Crown Princess of Sweden Désirée Clary, consort of Jean Baptiste Bernadotte. Elise la Flotte was raised in a French convent school and the school comrade of Désirée Clary.
She served as överhovmästarinna for her paternal aunt, the Swedish Queen Désirée Clary. Marcelle Tascher de la Pagerie was the daughter of Etienne-Francois Clary (1757–1823) and Catherine-Marguerite-Marseille Guey (d. 1804) and married the cousin of Empress Josephine de Beauharnais, count Henri de Tascher de la Pagerie (d. 1816).
Bernadotte is a primary supporting character in the historical fiction novel by New York Times Bestselling author Allison Pataki A Queen's Fortune: A Novel of Désirée, Napoleon, and the Dynasty that outlasted the Empire, that tells the life story of his wife (and Queen of Sweden and Norway) Désirée Clary.
The House of Bernadotte [a] is the royal family of Sweden, founded there in 1818 by King Charles XIV John of Sweden.It was also the royal family of Norway between 1818 and 1905.
Queen Desideria of Sweden and Norway, formerly Désirée Clary (1777–1860) Desideria Quintanar de Yáñez (1814–1893), the first woman baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico; Desideria Ocampo Arriola (1861–1910), first lady of Guatemala "La Desideria", nickname of Chilean actress Ana González Olea (1915 ...