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Marguerite-Josephine Georges "Mademoiselle George" (Weimer)

Russian: Маргарита Жозефина Веймер
Also Known As: "мадемуазель Жорж", "Жоржина"
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Birthplace: Bayeux, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France
Death: January 11, 1867 (79)
Passy, Haute-Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Georges Wiemer and Marie Wiemer
Partner of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and Napoléon I, emperor of the French
Ex-partner of Aleksander I Pavlovich Romanov, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias
Mother of Maria Alexandrovna Zhukova

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About Marguerite-Josephine Georges "Mademoiselle George"

From Wikipedia:

Marguerite Georges (1787–1867) was a French stage actor. She belonged to the most famous French actors of her time. She is also known for her affair with Napoleon.

Biography

Marguerite Georges was born Marguerite-Josephine Weimer in Bayeux, the daughter of a German employed in the theatre orchestra in Amiens. She debuted on stage in 1802 at the age of fifteen at the Théâtre Français in Paris; she was made sociétaire in 1804.[1] Her affair with Napoleon took place between 1802 and 1804, and was rumoured to be the reason she left France in 1808.

She was active in Saint Petersburg in Russia in 1808–1812, debuting at St. Petersburg, in Phèdre, and alternating nights with the Russian actress Ekaterina Semenova.[2] She toured Europe in 1812–1813, during which she performed at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and Dresden. She then returned to France. She was active at the Théatre Français in 1813–1818, at the Odéon Theatre and in 1831–49 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin.

She lived at 25 Rue Madame, but moved to a boarding house at Rue de Helder.[3] She retired in 1853, and received a pension from Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother. She died in Passy.
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The Wikipedia entry currently (January 2013) does not mention her subsquent (1814) affair with the Duke of Wellington, but see Andrew Roberts, "Napoleon and Wellington" (pages 152-153). In comparing her two lovers' performance she said that "Monsieur le duc etait beaucoup le plus fort".



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Georges

О Маргарите Жозефиной Веймер (русский)

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%83%...

французская трагическая актриса, любовница Наполеона и, по слухам, Александра I

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Marguerite-Josephine Georges "Mademoiselle George"'s Timeline

1787
February 23, 1787
Bayeux, Calvados, Lower Normandy, France
1814
March 18, 1814
Saint Petersburg
1867
January 11, 1867
Age 79
Passy, Haute-Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France