Marriage
At Sceaux on 16 August 1798 he married Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary, the daughter of a Marseille silk merchant, and sister of Joseph Bonaparte's wife Julie Clary - Désirée had previously been engaged to Napoleon. Bernadotte and Désirée had only one son, Oscar I of Sweden and Norway.
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