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Bonaparte
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Name of a celebrated family of Italian origin settled in Corsica; the principal members of it were:
orn at Ajaccio, 1744; died at Montpellier, 1785; married, 1767.
orn at Ajaccio, 1750; died at Rome, 1836; of this union were born eight children:
ecame king of Naples, 1806; king of Spain from 1808 to 1813; retired to United States after Waterloo; returned to Europe, and died at Florence, 1844. Napoleon I. (q. v .).
i>b . 1775; became president of the Council of the Five Hundred, and prince of Canino; died in Viterbo, 1840.
i>b . 1777; married Felix Bacciochi, who became prince of Lucca; died at Trieste, 1826.
i>b . 1778; married Hortense de Beauharnais; father of Napoleon III.; king of Holland (from 1806 to 1810); died at Leghorn, 1846.
i>b . 1780; married General Leclerc, 1801; afterwards, in 1803, Prince Camille Borghese; became Duchess of Guastalla; died at Florence, 1825.
i>b . 1782; married Marat in 1800; became Grand-duchess of Berg and Clèves, then queen of Naples; died at Florence, 1839. Jerome, b . 1784, king of Westphalia (from 1807 to 1813); marshal of France in 1850; married, by second marriage, Princess Catherine of Würtemburg; died in 1860; his daughter, the Princess Mathilde, b . 1820, and his son, Prince Napoleon, called Jerome, b . 1822, married Princess Clothilde, daughter of Victor Emmanuel, of which marriage was born Prince Victor Napoleon in 1862.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bonaparte'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/bonaparte.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.