Beauharnais
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Beauharnais could refer to:
- House of BeauharnaisHouse of BeauharnaisThe House of Beauharnais or Beauharnois is a French noble house. It is now represented by the Duke of Leuchtenberg, descendant in male line of Eugène de Beauharnais.-History:...
, a French nobel house - Beauharnais v. IllinoisBeauharnais v. IllinoisBeauharnais v. Illinois, 343 U.S. 250 , was a case that came before the Supreme Court in 1952. The result was that an Illinois law making it illegal to publish or exhibit any writing or picture portraying the "depravity, criminality, unchastity, or lack of virtue of a class of citizens of any race,...
, a U.S. Supreme Court precedent