Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte
Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte (born October 31, 1802 in Paris , † March 3, 1839 in Sarzana ) was the imperial princess.
She was born to Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844), Napoleon's eldest brother , and Julie Clary (1771-1845). Her sister was Désirée Clary , Napoleon's first fiancé.
She was married to her cousin Napoleon Louis Bonaparte (1804-1831), a son of Louis Bonaparte , also a brother of Napoleon, and the Hortense de Beauharnais .
Charlotte studied lithography in Paris with the artist Louis Léopold Robert .
Her father was appointed King of Naples and then King of Spain by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, her uncle and later father-in-law Louis Bonaparte as King of Holland. After Louis Bonaparte's abdication on July 1, 1810, her future husband Louis ruled as his successor for exactly 10 days, until the French army invaded and overthrew him. The couple had no children.
After her father was overthrown as King of Spain in 1813, the family went to America, where they bought the "Point Breeze" estate on the Delaware River near Bordentown in New Jersey . The house encompassed a huge park and was decorated with numerous paintings by Titian and Rubens .
Charlotte, who from then on called herself Countess von Survilliers, devoted herself to the fine arts again, painting portraits and landscape paintings and exhibiting her work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts .
From 1824 Charlotte lived again in Europe and died giving birth to her only child, the father was the Polish Count Potocki. Charlotte was buried in the Santa Croce Church in Florence .
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- E. Benezit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. 1966, Volume 1, p. 754 and Volume 7, p. 279.
- Patricia Tyson Stroud: The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2005, pp. 88-113.
| predecessor | Office | Successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hortense de Beauharnais |
Queen of Holland 1810 |
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| SURNAME | Bonaparte, Charlotte Napoléone |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch Queen and Imperial French Princess |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 1839 |
| Place of death | Sarzana |