Christine Boyer

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Antoine-Jean Gros : Christine Boyer, oil on canvas, around 1800

Christine Boyer (born July 3, 1773 in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume , † May 4, 1800 in Paris ) was the first wife of Lucien Bonaparte , Napoléon 's younger brother.

Life

Christine Boyer was the daughter and heiress of a wealthy wine merchant from Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume. On May 4, 1794, she married the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte , Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840; alias Brutus Marathon ), the deputy and later president of the Council of Five Hundred . The wedding took place on the part of Lucien, not least because of the high dowry of Mademoiselle Christine Boyer.

Jean-Baptiste Isabey : Christine Boyer, oil on wood, around 1799

The marriage resulted in four children, of which only the two daughters reached adulthood.

  • Son (* / † 1796)
  • Filistine Charlotte (1796-1865), Princess de Canino
⚭ 1815 Mario Gabrielli, Marchese di Prossedi (1773–1841)
⚭ 1842 Settimo Centamori († 1866)
  • Son (* / † 1797)
  • Christine-Egypta (1798–1847), Princess de Canino
⚭ 1818–1824 Count Arvid Posse (1782–1826)
⚭ 1824 Lord Dudley Stuart (1803-1854)

In Marseille , Madame Christine Bonaparte was on good terms with Désirée Clary , who later became the wife of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte , who was then the fiancé of her brother-in-law Napoléon Bonaparte . But for years she mistrusted her two sisters-in-law, Joséphine de Beauharnais and Caroline Bonaparte , with whom she had a bitter rivalry. Madame Bonaparte died on May 4, 1800 of complications from pneumonia during her fifth pregnancy.

Name in different phases of life

  • 1773–1794 Mademoiselle Christine Boyer
  • 1794–1800 Madame Christine Bonaparte

literature

  • Felix Grayeff : Lucien Bonaparte. Brother of the emperor. Opponent of the Empire. With excerpts from the memoirs of Lucien Bonaparte and other contemporary documents . Claassen, Hamburg 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Vincent Cronin : Napoleon. Strategist and statesman ("Napoleon", 1979). 7th edition Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-09047-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Boyer, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonaparte, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first wife of Lucien Bonaparte, Napoléon's youngest brother
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1800
Place of death Paris