Pauline Bonaparte

Pauline Bonaparte
Princess of Guastalla
Princess consort of Sulmona and of Rossano
Portrait by Robert Lefèvre, 1809
Duchess of Guastalla
Reign24 March 1806 – 14 August 1806[1]
PredecessorFerdinand
SuccessorDuchy annexed by Parma
Born(1780-10-20)20 October 1780
Maison Bonaparte, Ajaccio, Corsica
Died9 June 1825(1825-06-09) (aged 44)
Florence, Tuscany
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1797; died 1802)
(m. 1803)
IssueDermide Leclerc
Names
Maria Paola Bonaparte
HouseBonaparte
FatherCarlo Maria Buonaparte
MotherLetizia Ramolino
ReligionRoman Catholicism
SignaturePauline Bonaparte's signature

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 Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI of France. Her elder brother, Napoleon, was the first emperor of the French. She married Charles Leclerc, a French general, a union ended by his death in 1802.

Later, Pauline married Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona. Her only child, Dermide Leclerc, born from her first marriage, died in childhood. She was the only Bonaparte sibling to visit Napoleon in exile on his principality, Elba.

  1. ^ Carlton, p 151