HORTENSE, Eugenie de Beauharnais
(1783–1837)
HORTENSE (Eugenie de Beauharnais), Queen of Holland, Paris, April 10, 1783. Viry, Oct. 5, 1837. She composed and wrote the once popular national French air, Partant pour le Syrie. This has long since been superseded by that song of freedom, the Marseilles Hymn. Droüet the composer claimed the music of this song as his own.