Alexandrine Bonaparte, Princess of Canino and Musignano (née Alexandrine de Bleschamp; 23 February 1778 – 12 July 1855) was a French aristocrat.
She was first married to the banker Hippolyte Jouberthon, with whom she had one child, Anne, in 1799, and thus known as "Madame Jouberthon". She was a widow when she became the second wife of
Lucien Bonaparte
Lucien Bonaparte, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano (born Luciano Buonaparte; 21 May 1775 – 29 June 1840), was French politician and diplomat of the French Revolution and the Consulate. He served as Minister of the Interior from 1799 to 1800 ...
, a younger brother of
Napoleon I of France
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
, in 1803.
Issue
She and her second husband had nine children, including:
*Prince
Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857), was a French naturalist and ornithologist. Lucien and his wife had twelve children, including Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte.
Life and career
...
(1803–1857)
*Prince
Paul Marie Bonaparte (1809–1827)
*Prince
Louis Lucien Bonaparte
Louis Lucien Bonaparte (4 January 1813 – 3 November 1891) was a French philologist. The third son of Napoleon's second surviving brother, Lucien Bonaparte, he spent much of his life outside France for political reasons. After a brief politica ...
(1813–1891).
*Prince
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
(1815–1881).
Ancestry
Sources
Hans Naef, 'Who's Who in Ingres's Portrait of the Family of Lucien Bonaparte?' The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 114, No. 836 (Nov., 1972), pp. 787–791
Alexandrine as Terpsichore, by Canova
Italian princesses
Princesses of France (Bonaparte)
Princesses by marriage
House of Bonaparte
1778 births
1855 deaths
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