.. of Saint Domingue.  She reigned like an empress, and built a menagerie (zoo) and collected plants for fun. When her husband died of yellow fever in 1802, she returned to France to live with her brother Joseph.  She brought Leclerc’s body in a sarcophagus, and local rumor had it …

… after her husband attacked the village of Saint Domingue at night, killing all those who rebelled against the French.  She and her son watched from the ship. Unfortunately, within weeks after the attack, 25,000 French soldiers died of yellow fever.  Most of the remaining defected because the French had …

She was the 5th child in the family.  Known as “Paulette”, she married Charles Leclerc, a general in her brother’s French army. Charles and Paulette had a son.  When Napoleon sent Leclerc to Saint Domingue to settle a rebellion, the whole family went on the ship. (portrait: Pauline Napoleon Leclerc …

… although we found this rare portrait of her 2nd born Marie Letitzia dressed as the “Queen of Hearts” in Venice; presumeably for Carnivale.

… While he married an American from South Carolina, he returned to become a key advisor to Napoleon III of France.

.. was the Sovereign Prince of Pontecorvo.  He moved to Florida, US.

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.. which was completely made up – an anagram of her previous title of “Napoli”.  She remarried in Florence, Italy, Francesco Macdonald.  They had no children. She had 4 children through her first marriage to Joachim Murat.   2 went to the new United States, and came back again to Italy …

… Napoleon had his first illegitimate child with Elenore Denuelle.  Caroline then brought in Marie Louise as Napoleon’s 2nd wife. In the meantime, Caroline, married to Joachim Murat, became the Grand Duchess of Berg and Cleves.  She focused on her husband’s affairs, which unfortunately for him, included alliance with anti-Napoleonic …