Lucien Bonaparte - Marriages and Children

Marriages and Children

His first wife was his landlord's daughter, Christine Boyer, the illiterate sister of an innkeeper of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, and by her he had four children, one of whom was stillborn:

  • Charlotte Christine (1795–1865) married Prince Mario Gabrielli
  • Victoire (1797)
  • Christine Charlotte (1798–1847) married Lord Dudley Stuart

His second wife was Alexandrine de Bleschamp, widow of Hippolyte Jouberthon, known as "Madame Jouberthon", and by her he had nine children:

  • Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803–1857), the naturalist and ornithologist.
  • Letizia (1804–1871) (married Sir Thomas Wyse)
  • Joseph (1806–1807)
  • Jeanne (1807–1829)
  • Paul Marie Bonaparte (1809–1827)
  • Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813–1891).
  • Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte (1815–1881).
  • Antoine (1816–1877)
  • Alexandrine (1818–1874)
  • Constance (1823–1876)

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