Carlo Buonaparte | |
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| Noble Patrician of Tuscany | |
 Portrait attributed to Anton Raphael Mengs, between c. 1766–1779 | |
| Full name | Carlo Maria Buonaparte |
| Born | 27 March 1746 Ajaccio, Corsica, Republic of Genoa |
| Died | 24 February 1785 (aged 38) Montpellier, Kingdom of France |
| Buried | Imperial Chapel, Ajaccio, France |
| Noble family | Buonaparte |
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| Issue | |
| Father | Giuseppe Maria Buonaparte |
| Mother | Maria Saveria Paravicini |
Carlo Maria Buonaparte or Charles-Marie Bonaparte (27 March 1746[1] – 24 February 1785) was a Corsican attorney best known as the father of Napoleon Bonaparte and grandfather of Napoleon III.
Buonaparte served briefly as a personal assistant to revolutionary leader Pasquale Paoli, fighting with the Corsican forces against the Genoese republic.[2] With the island becoming French, Buonaparte eventually rose to become in 1777 Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI. Twenty years after his death, his second surviving son, Napoleon, became Emperor of the French. Several of Buonaparte's other children received royal titles from their brother and married into royalty.
- ^ Seward 1986, p. 6.
- ^ Gallo, Max (4 November 2011). Napoleon 1: The Song of Departure. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-76579-5.