Skip to content
Curated category

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. His father Louis-Auguste Cézanne co-founded a banking firm called…
  • NapoleonNapoleon Bonaparte was born on the island of Corsica on the 15th of August 1769 to Carlo Maria Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino.
  • Caroline BonaparteCarolina Maria Annunziata Bonaparte entered the world on the 25th of March 1782 in Ajaccio, Corsica. She was the seventh child and third daughter of Carlo…
  • André GideAndré Paul Guillaume Gide was born in Paris on the 22nd of November 1869 into a middle-class Protestant family. His father Jean Paul Guillaume Gide served as…
  • Napoleon IIICharles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Paris on the night of 19 to the 20th of April 1808. His father Louis ruled Holland from 1806 until 1810.
  • 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 entered the world on the 26th of August 1757 in Saliceto, Haute-Corse. His family traced their roots to Piacentine origins before…
  • 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 BonaparteGiuseppe di Buonaparte entered the world on the 7th of January 1768 in Corte, the capital of the Corsican Republic. His parents were Carlo Buonaparte and…
  • Letizia BonaparteMaria-Letizia Ramolino entered the world on the 24th of August 1750 in Ajaccio, Corsica. At that moment, the island belonged to the Republic of Genoa rather…
  • Carlo BuonaparteGuglielmo di Buonaparte served on Florence's Ghibelline-controlled municipal council during the 13th century. When the rival Guelphs faction seized power…
  • 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.