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Carolina Maria Annunziata Bonaparte (French: Caroline Marie Annunciata Bonaparte; 25 March 1782 – 18 May 1839), better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was an Imperial French princess; the seventh child and third daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, and a younger sister of Napoleon I of France. She was queen of Naples during the ...
May 14, 2024 · Caroline Bonaparte (born March 25, 1782, Ajaccio, Corsica—died May 18, 1839, Florence [Italy]) was the queen of Naples (1808–15), Napoleon’s youngest sister and the wife (1800) of Joachim Murat.
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Mar 5, 2021 · Learn about the life and adventures of Caroline Bonaparte Murat, Napoleon's sister who married his general and became a queen of Naples and Sicily. Discover how she betrayed her brother when he was defeated and fled to America.
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- Jérôme Bonaparte (1784-1860) Jérôme Bonaparte. Jérôme, the youngest sibling of Napoleon, became the first Bonaparte to step foot in America, in 1803, the same year his brother nearly doubled the size of the United States by authorizing the Louisiana Purchase.
- Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844) Joseph Bonaparte. Napoleon’s eldest sibling, Joseph, went incognito following his brother’s downfall and escaped to the United States in the summer of 1815.
- Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840) Lucien Bonaparte. As with Jérôme, Napoleon strongly disapproved of his younger sibling Lucien’s choice of a bride. But unlike Jérôme, Lucien stuck with his wife, preferring to live with her in self-imposed exile than become a monarch like his brothers.
- Louis Bonaparte (1778-1846) Louis Bonaparte. Like his brother Lucien, Louis went to Italy post-Waterloo and never visited the United States. Louis’ son, Louis-Napoleon, on the other hand, found himself there unintentionally.
Jan 30, 2019 · Caroline Bonaparte was born on 25 March 1782 as the daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino and as such was Emperor Napoleon I’s younger sister. She hardly knew her father as he would die two years after her birth of cancer of the stomach.
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Carolina Maria Annunziata Bonaparte, better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was an Imperial French princess; the seventh child and third daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, and a younger sister of Napoleon I of France.
A short biography (with portrait) of Marie-Annonciade, a.k.a. Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples and the Two-Sicilies, younger sister of Napoleon Bonaparte.
