Featured: later Empress Josephine, and below: near 1800 with “the little white dress” and accents related to French military uniforming.
Category: Fashion History Blog
A few portraits of the Empresses..
.. of Napoleon that we missed before. While Marie Louise (wife #2) was not noteworthy as leading fashion, Josephine was. Marie had people who designed and dressed for her in attempt to have her accepted into French nobility. She was popular, but not because of her clothing; because she was …
This completes Napoleon’s siblings and their ties..
.. to fashion and other countries. We have also gone thoroughly through Napoleon’s 2 wives, Josephine and Marie Louise, and their children. Do you have your family tree in order? We will now move “laterally” to Napoleon’s liasons and progeny through mistresses, as they continue connections to today. (portrait: a …
Joseph Bonaparte was also portrayed…
.. as “Golden Boy” in a play written by Clifford Odets. (portraits: Joseph Bonaparte, eldest younger brother of Napoleon I’s wife Marie Julie Clary)
And.. there were places in the US named after Joseph Bonaparte…
… although Napoleon’s brother returned to be the Governor of Paris, and to run the French army, when Napoleon was exiled in 1815, Joseph moved to the United States to live most of the time. He was considered the heir to the French throne when Napoleon II, Napoleon I’st legitimate …
There were several “Charlottes” in this generation of Bonapartes…
… Joseph’s legitimate daughter was Charlotte Napoleone Bonaparte, who married Napoleon Louis Bonaparte. Catherine Charlotte, his illegitimate daughter by Annette Savage, went on to the US. (portrait: Catherine Charlotte Benton of New York)
At the time 3 women were bearing his children…
.. in 1808, Joseph Bonaparte was replaced of his Kingdom in Rome by his brother Napoleon I who wanted him to go to Spain and make the same reforms and progress. He put Joachim Murat in his place in Italy. Napoleon was trying to keep Joachim and his wife, Napoleon’s …
Joseph had 3 women who gave him only daughters…
… 2 by his wife Julie Clary, 2 by Annette Savage “Madame de la Folie”, and 2 by Maria Giula, Countess of Atri. Guila was born in 1806, and Teresa in 1808 by Maria Giula, while he was in Rome, and at about the same time as his legitimate children. …
Napoleon’s brother Joseph was a busy man…
… between fathering children, he ruled 2 countries. In 1805, Napoleon sent Joseph, his eldest younger brother, as head of the army to Rome. In 1806, Joseph invaded Rome and Italy, and overthrew King Ferdinand of Naples AND the British. Napoleon was so happy, he made Joseph King of Naples …
Joseph and Marie Julie Clary..
… also had Charlotte Napoleone Bonaparte, who would also marry a cousin, Napoleon Louis Bonaparte. (portrait: mother Julie Clary, Queen of Spain in the early 1800’s, with legitimate daughters Zenaide and Charlotte, of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s eldest younger brother; about 1801 “1st Regency” style as embellished for the French and …