She worked closely with sculptors, painters and interior decorators to establish a unique Consular style at the Château de Malmaison that is well known. On 2 March 1794, during the Reign of Terror, the Committee of Public Safety ordered the arrest of her husband. Brenner, Douglas, and Scanniello, Stephen (2009). She was a popular ruler and fashionable people copied her. Unfortunately the roses were not catalogued during her tenure. Through her children by Beauharnais, she was the grandmother of Napoleon III and of the second empress of Brazil, and the reigning houses of Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Norway and Luxembourg also descend from her. Originally a diminutive form of the French name Joséphe, Joséphine became the standard form in the 19th century, replacing Joséphe, which eventually became a very rare name. These acts were said to be for Josephine's alleged role in convincing Napoleon to reinstitute slavery in the French colonies. After buying the Château de Malmaison, Josephine had a blank canvas to showpiece her art and style and used it to create salons, galleries, a theater and her infamous garden. [citation needed] It is known that Josephine did not love Napoleon as much as he loved her, and that it took her years before she warmed to his affections. The architects Percier and Fontaine are connected to the Empire style associated with the time period.[38]. In her role as empress, Napoleon had a court appointed to her and reinstated the offices which composed the household of the queen before the French revolution, with Adélaïde de La Rochefoucauld as Première dame d'honneur, Émilie de Beauharnais as Dame d'atour, and the wives of his own officials and generals, Jeanne Charlotte du Lucay, Madame de Rémusat, Elisabeth Baude de Talhouët, Lauriston, d'Arberg, Marie Antoinette Duchâtel, Sophie de Segur, Séran, Colbert, Savary and Aglaé Louise Auguié Ney, as Dame de Palais. [28] However, a number of these jewels were probably never a part of Joséphine's collection at all, but instead belonged to other members of her family.[29]. It is also assumed that the de Taschers estate in Martinique was a pied-a-terre [occasional lodging] with his mother-in-law. She became the first French female royal collector of this scale, leading in the Consular and Empire Style.[36]. Due to her husband's high position in society she was often able to frequent many influential people's homes and learned from the works that were in their houses. [10] His letters became less loving. It is the English version of the French name Joséphine. [34], Empress Josephine was a great lover of all art. )[40] The head has never been found. Following a pre-arranged protocol, Napoleon first crowned himself, then put the crown on Joséphine's head, proclaiming her empress. Until meeting Bonaparte, she was known as Rose, but Bonaparte preferred to call her Joséphine, the name she adopted from then on. Another of Eugène's daughters, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, married Emperor Pedro I of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, and became Empress of Brazil, and they had one surviving daughter, Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, who was briefly engaged to Archduke Maximilian of Austria before her early death. Her daughter Hortense is interred near her. After her marriage to the then General Bonaparte, she adopted the name Joséphine Bonaparte and the name of "Rose" faded into her past. She was born Marie-Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie (known as Rose), on June 23, 1763, in Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique, the eldest daughter of Joseph-Gaspard Tascher, Seigneur de la Pagerie, and Rose Claire des Vergers de Sannois.