… While Pauline hated Napoleon’s 2nd wife Marie Louise, in the end they put all their differences aside. When Napoleon’s reign ended with his exile to Elba, Pauline was the only sibling to visit him, and to support him. She sold her residence to the British Government, and they used …
.. as with her first marriage, she continued to have MANY extramarital affairs with the 2nd. One of her lovers was violinist Niccolo Paganini. She and her husband did not get along. When her sickly son died of an illness, her husband left her, but not before Napoleon bestowed upon …
Paulette bored quickly of life with her brother and the rules of mourning, so Napoleon wanted to marry her off as soon as possible. He arranged a marriage with Camilio Borghese, the 6th Prince of Sulmona. Paulette liked the title, and secretly married Camilio so she could get out of …
.. 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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