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Charles Leclerc. Paula Maria Bonaparte Leclerc Borghese ( French: Pauline Marie Bonaparte; 20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825), better known as Pauline Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess, the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, and the princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo ...
Jun 5, 2024 · Pauline Bonaparte was the second sister of Napoleon to survive infancy, and was the gayest and most beautiful of his sisters. She married Gen. C.V.E. Leclerc (1772–1802), a staff officer of Napoleon, in 1797 and accompanied him to San Domingo.
Jan 4, 2021 · Pauline Bonaparte (1780–1825), the youngest of Napoleon’s three sisters, was the most frivolous one. She possessed magnetic beauty and charm. Whenever she went, the eyes of men turned after her.
Mar 9, 2023 · Pauline Bonaparte, younger sister to Napoleon, was her brother’s favorite of their seven siblings. She was the only one who took no part in his political power plays. While her siblings were ...
Jun 7, 2018 · A year or so after Dermide’s death, around 1805, Camillo commissioned the famous Italian neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova to depict Pauline Bonaparte as the goddess Diana fully clothed, but, instead, Napoleon’s pleasure-loving sister Pauline insisted on a practically nude version of Venus. Perhaps, because of her promiscuity, she wanted ...
Mar 20, 2009 · March 20, 2009. Dinner at Marseille, 1796. The story of Pauline Bonaparte, legendary beauty and seductress, begins, appropriately, with a meeting of three men. At dinner in the port of Marseille ...
Dec 5, 2014 · Blame it on the model. Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon’s sister, did not exactly enjoy a great reputation. While less grasping and rapacious than the rest of her family, Pauline was widely considered vain, capricious, and selfish. After catching her in flagrante delicto in his office with one of his generals, Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc ...
Bonaparte, Pauline (1780–1825) Princess Borghese and duchess of Guastalla. Name variations: Marie Pauline; Maria-Paoletta. Born Carlotta Bonaparte in Ajaccio, Corsica, on October 20, 1780; died in Florence, Italy, on June 9, 1825; daughter ofLetizia Bonaparte (1750–1836) and Carlo Bonaparte (a Corsican lawyer); younger sister of Napoleon I, emperor of France (r. 1804–1815); married ...
Aug 31, 2018 · Pauline Bonaparte was born on 20 October 1780 as the daughter of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte She was thus the sister of the future Emperor Napoleon. She was known as Paoletta in the family and was just four when her father passed away. She received very little education. At the age of 15, she became engaged to a [read more]
At the turn of the nineteenth century, she was considered by many to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. She shocked the continent with the boldness of her love affairs, her opulent wardrobe and jewels, and, most famously, her decision to pose nearly nude for Canova's sculpture, which has been replicated in countless ways through the years.
