Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte

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Zenaïde Bonaparte (front) and her sister Charlotte , Jacques-Louis David , 1821

Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, Princess of Canino and Musignano (born July 9, 1801 , † August 8, 1854 ) was the eldest daughter of Joseph Bonaparte and Julie Clary . She later married her cousin, the ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte . She and her father lived in exile in New Jersey for several years.

Zénaide Laetitia and Charles Lucien Bonaparte married on June 29, 1822. The marriage came about at the suggestion of their father. At the time when his daughter was five years old, he planned to marry her and her sister to the sons of his brother Lucien Bonaparte . He wanted to continue the Napoleonic dynasty, as he did not rule out the possibility that the Bonaparte family could one day regain power. The marriage was celebrated with very little pomp. This may have been due to the fact that the family gave their daughter an extraordinarily high dowry of 730,000 francs, which considerably reduced the family's assets. The marriage had twelve children:

  • Joseph Lucien Charles Napoleon Bonaparte, 3rd Prince de Canino et de Musignano (born February 13, 1824 - † September 2, 1865)
  • Alexandrine Gertrude Zénaïde Bonaparte (born June 9, 1826 - † May 1828)
  • Lucien Louis Joseph Napoleon Bonaparte, 4th Prince de Canino et de Musignano (born November 15, 1828 - † November 19, 1895)
  • Julie Charlotte Bonaparte (June 5, 1830 - October 28, 1900)
  • Charlotte Honorine Joséphine Pauline Bonaparte (March 4, 1832 - October 1, 1901)
  • Léonie Stéphanie Elise Bonaparte (born September 18, 1833 - † September 14, 1839)
  • Marie Désirée Eugénie Joséphine Philomène Bonaparte (born March 18, 1835 - † August 28, 1890)
  • Augusta Amélie Maximilienne Jacqueline Bonaparte (born November 9, 1836 - † March 29, 1900)
  • Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonaparte, 5th Prince de Canino et de Musignano (born February 5, 1839 - † February 11, 1899)
  • Bathilde Aloïse Léonie Bonaparte (November 26, 1840; June 9, 1861)
  • Albertine Marie Thérèse Bonaparte (March 12, 1842 - June 3, 1842)
  • Charles Albert Bonaparte (March 22, 1843 - December 6, 1847)

The genus of the mourning doves has the scientific name Zenaida and was named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in honor of his wife.

Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b Stroud, pp. 25-29

literature

  • Stroud, Patricia Tyson. The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8122-3546-0 .

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SURNAME Bonaparte, Zénaïde Laetitia Julie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Musignano, Zénaïde Laetitia Julie; Canino, Zénaïde Laetitia Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of Canino and Musignano
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1801
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1854