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French people of Italian descent

  • Paul CézannePaul Cézanne was born on the 19th of January 1839 at 28 rue de l'Opéra in Aix-en-Provence, a city he would never truly leave behind.
  • NapoleonNapoleon Bonaparte was born Napoleone di Buonaparte on the 15th of August 1769, on the island of Corsica, to a family of Italian origin.
  • Caroline BonaparteCaroline Bonaparte was born on the 25th of March 1782, the seventh child of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, the younger sister of the man who would…
  • André GideAndré Paul Guillaume Gide was born in Paris on the 22nd of November 1869, and by the time he died on the 19th of February 1951, his New York Times obituary…
  • Napoleon IIINapoleon III was born in the Tuileries Palace in Paris on the night of the 19th-the 20th of April 1808 - the first Bonaparte prince born after the…
  • Francis II of FranceOn the 10th of July 1559, a fifteen-year-old boy named Francis II became king of France after his father Henry II died in a jousting accident.
  • Louis BonaparteLouis Bonaparte entered the world on the 2nd of September 1778 in Ajaccio, Corsica. This island had been conquered by France less than a decade before his…
  • Antoine Christophe SalicetiAntoine Christophe Saliceti died in Naples on the 23rd of December 1809, in circumstances that no one has ever fully explained.
  • Jérôme BonaparteJérôme Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, Corsica on the 15th of November 1784. He was the eighth and last surviving child of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia…
  • Joseph BonaparteJoseph Bonaparte arrived in the United States in the summer of 1815, hiding aboard a merchant vessel called the Commerce under the false name M. Bouchard.
  • Letizia BonaparteLetizia Bonaparte stood at a cathedral door on the Feast of the Assumption, 1769, in Ajaccio when her labor began. She had spent months fleeing through the…
  • Carlo BuonaparteCarlo Maria Buonaparte was born on the 27th of March 1746 in Ajaccio, Corsica, at a moment when the island was still nominally governed by the Republic of…
  • François GérardFrançois Pascal Simon Gérard entered the world on the 4th of May 1770 in Rome. His father held a post within the house of the French ambassador there.