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House of Bonaparte

  • NapoleonListen to the story of Napoleon, the Corsican outsider who rose through a revolution and rewrote the laws of a continent. Follow the thread to St Helena.
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • Julie ClaryJulie Clary was the Queen of Spain who never set foot in Spain. Born on the 26th of December 1771 in Marseille, she married into the most powerful family in…
  • Louis BonaparteLouis Bonaparte told the people of Holland that he was their Konijn van 'Olland - their Rabbit of 'Olland - rather than their King.
  • Abdications of BayonneThe Abdications of Bayonne took place across three days in May 1808, when Napoleon I extracted the Spanish Crown from two kings simultaneously.
  • Jérôme BonaparteJérôme Bonaparte married Elizabeth Patterson on Christmas Eve, the 24th of December 1803, in Baltimore, against her father's explicit objections.
  • 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.
  • Joséphine de Beauharnais"France, the Army, the Head of the Army, Joséphine." These were the last words Napoleon spoke on his deathbed at Saint Helena.
  • 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…
  • Elisa BonaparteElisa Bonaparte was born on the 3rd of January 1777 in Ajaccio, Corsica, and she grew up to become something her famous brother never expected: a genuine…
  • Pauline BonapartePauline Bonaparte was born on the 20th of October 1780 in Ajaccio, Corsica, into a family that was, at that moment, still firmly on the margins of history.
  • Stéphanie de BeauharnaisStéphanie de Beauharnais was born in Versailles on the 28th of August 1789, the very summer the French Revolution began tearing apart the world she would…
  • Napoleon IINapoleon II was Emperor of the French for exactly two days. He never sat on the throne. He never held a scepter. He never gave an order that anyone was bound…
  • 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…
  • House of BonaparteThe House of Bonaparte began with a single gesture. On the 2nd of December 1804, Napoleon I lifted an imperial crown and placed it on his own head.
  • Maison BonaparteMaison Bonaparte stands on the Rue Saint-Charles in Ajaccio, a quiet address on the French island of Corsica that shaped one of history's most dramatic…
  • Lucien BonaparteLucien Bonaparte swore, during the Coup of 18 Brumaire, that he would personally stab Napoleon in the chest. The pledge was conditional: if Napoleon ever…