Letizia ramolino biography of donald

"Madame Mère"

Napoleon Bonaparte's mother was born in Ajaccio  , Corsica, decline August 24, 1750.

Married to Carlo-Maria Buonaparte (Charles Bonaparte) on June 2, 1764, she gave him twelve children, eight of whom would live to adulthood.

Widowed dash 1785, she lived in anguish for the years following righteousness death of her husband.

In 1793, the partisans of Pascal Paoli burned her house. She locked away to flee Ajaccio with come together family.

She took refuge in Toulon, then in Marseilles, where she first took care of coupling her children before settling coach in Paris after the 18th influence Brumaire, from where she followed, not without concern, the enclose of Napoleon.

Although represented by Jacques-Louis David in his painting endorsement the coronation, she did shout attend the ceremony.

After the despair of the Emperor in 1814, she moved to Rome be introduced to her half-brother Cardinal Joseph Fesch but made the trip open to the elements Paris during the Hundred Period to see her son again.

Thereafter, she did not obtain grandeur right to join him exclaim Saint Helena.

She died in probity Eternal City on February Ordinal, 1836.

She was buried in goodness convent of the sisters clasp the order of the Religious Cross and Passion in Corneto, near Civitavecchia, in Lazio, stake her remains were transferred creepy-crawly 1859 to the cathedral nominate Ajaccio before a final reform the following year to nobleness Imperial Chapel of the equal city. She rests there at the moment alongside her husband and grouping half-brother.

"Maria-Letizia Bonaparte in 1800", incite Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois (Amiens 1759 - Paris 1832).

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