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Letizia Buonaparte: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Maria Letizia Buonaparte • Madame Mere • Maria Letizia Ramolino
Born August 24, 1750 • Ajaccio • France
Died February 2, 1836 (aged 85) • Rome • Italy
House / Dynasty Bonaparte family
Notable Family Members spouse Carlo Maria Buonaparte • mother Napoleon I • daughter Caroline Bonaparte • daughter Élisa Bonaparte • daughter Pauline Bonaparte • son Jérôme Bonaparte • son Joseph Bonaparte • son Louis Bonaparte • son Lucien Bonaparte

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Letizia Buonaparte
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Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Lucien Bonaparte, lithograph.
Lucien Bonaparte
French politician
Lithograph portrait of Joseph Bonaparte wearing a dark coat with a high collar and a medal pinned to his chest, facing forward with a slight smile.
Joseph Bonaparte
king of Spain and Naples
Jérôme Bonaparte
Jérôme Bonaparte
king of Westphalia
Pozzo di Borgo, Charles-André, Comte
Charles-André, Comte Pozzo di Borgo
Corsican noble
Louis Bonaparte
Louis Bonaparte
king of Holland
Paoli, Pasquale
Pasquale Paoli
Corsican statesman
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Pauline Bonaparte
sister of Napoleon
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Sambucuccio d’Alando
Corsican revolutionary
Elisa Bonaparte with her daughter Napoleona Baciocchi, 1810.
Élisa Bonaparte
sister of Napoleon
Bonaparte, Caroline
Caroline Bonaparte
queen of Naples
Carlo Maria Buonaparte (1746-1785).
Carlo Maria Buonaparte
father of Napoleon