 It is also assumed that the de Taschers estate in Martinique was a "pied-a-terre" [occasional lodging] with his mother-in-law.St Lucia switched hands between England and France 14 times and at the time of Joesphine's birth there were no civil registers on the island that would explain her baptism in Martinique; however, St. Lucia's frequent change of ownership between England and France could be seen as the reason Josephine's birthplace was left out on her birth record as it would have affected her nationality.Hortense's son became Napoleon III, Emperor of the French.