Claude de Beauharnais (1756–1819)

Claude de Beauharnais, 2nd count des Roches-Baritaud (French pronunciation: [klod də boaʁnɛ]; 26 September 1756, La Rochelle – 10 January 1819, Paris) was a French politician.

He first married on 17 June 1786 to Claudine Françoise Adrienne Gabrielle de Lézay-Marnézia (Moutonne, Jura, 5 April 1768 - Saint-Julien-sur-Suran, 9 August 1791), by whom he had two children: He remarried in 1799 to Sophie Fortin Duplessis (7 February 1775 – 20 May 1850), and they had one child: He joined the army early and was a captain in the régiment des gardes françaises at the outbreak of the French Revolution.

In 1810, he became a member of the conseil d'administration of the Sénat conservateur, a chevalier d'honneur of empress Marie-Louise and grand cross of the ordre de la Fidélité (on 24 February).

On the Bourbon Restoration, Louis XVIII added to the honours Claude had received under Napoleon, including Pair de France on 4 June 1814.

In the trial of Marshal Ney, Claude voted for his death.