Maria-Letizia Buonaparte (
née
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Ramolino; 24 August 1750 (or 1749) – 2 February 1836), known as Letizia Bonaparte, was a
Corsica
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n noblewoman, mother 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 ...
. She became known as “” after the proclamation of the
Empire
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. She spent her later years in
Rome
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where she died in February 1836.
Early life
Maria-Letizia Ramolino was born in
Ajaccio
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,
Corsica
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(then part of the
Republic of Genoa
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), the daughter of Giovanni Geronimo Ramolino and his wife Angela Maria Pietra-Santa. Letizia's father was an army officer with expertise in civil engineering, who commanded the Ajaccio garrison, the Ramolino family were low rank
nobility
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from
Lombardy
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established in Corsica several generations earlier.
Letizia was educated at home and trained in nothing but domestic skills, like most Corsican women at the time. After the death of her father, when she was six, her mother married Franz
Fesch, a
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officer in the
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at Ajaccio. The couple married in 1757 and had two children, among them Letizia's half-brother, future
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Joseph Fesch
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.
Marriage and children
On 2 June 1764, fourteen-year-old Letizia married eighteen-year-old law student
Carlo Buonaparte
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of Ajaccio. Carlo had been studying law at Pisa University but left to marry Letizia without taking his degree. The Buonapartes, also part of the Corsican nobility, originally came from
Tuscany
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in the early sixteenth century.
First pregnant a few months later, she went on to give birth to thirteen children in all, of whom eight survived. A first son, named Napoleon, was born and died in 1765, followed by a baby girl who also died. Carlo then went to Rome where he spent the next two years, on his return, he joined republican leader
Pasquale Paoli
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becoming his part-time secretary. Letizia fell pregnant giving birth to Joseph, originally named Giuseppe, on 7 July 1768.
In 1768, when Genoa formally ceded the island to France, a Corsican guerrilla movement led by Paoli rose in revolt against the French. Carlo Buonaparte and nineteen-year-old Letizia, pregnant with the future Napoleon, joined Paoli and fled with the insurgents into the mountains near
Corte. Letizia would fight beside her husband in the struggle for independence. After the failure of the rebellion in May 1769 Carlo and Letizia returned to Ajaccio. On the
feast of the Assumption
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, 15 August 1769, while she was at Mass in
Ajaccio Cathedral
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, a minute's walk away from Casa Buonaparte, Letizia went into labour. According to the legend, she gave birth at home on a carpet of the living room where battles of the Iliad and Odyssey were woven; the little boy was christened Napoleon, after an uncle who had died the previous year. For the first time Letizia was unable to produce milk and had to hire a wet nurse called Camilla Llati to act as a surrogate mother. She kept only one servant: a woman named Mammuccia Caterina, who lived with her without wages, Mammuccia also acted as a midwife and had delivered Napoleon. Letizia performed all the household duties while Mammuccia looked after the children.
Letizia and her husband Carlo befriended the new island's military governor,
Charles Réné, Comte de Marbeuf and the intendant,
Bertrand de Boucheporn, whose wife was the godmother of their son Louis. In 1777 Marbeuf secured Carlo's election as a deputy to represent Corsica at Versailles. At the end of 1778, Carlo took Joseph, Napoléon to the continent to study at the
Collège d'Autun. The following year in May 1779, possibly because of Carlo and Letizia's friendship with the governor, and after Carlo was accorded a certificate of nobility, 9-year-old Napoleon was admitted to the
Brienne
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cadet school under a scholarship.
Letizia remained in Ajaccio bearing six more children,
Lucien
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in 1775,
Elisa
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in 1777,
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in 1778,
Pauline in 1780,
Caroline in 1782 and
Jérôme in 1784.
1784-1804
In 1784 Letizia managed to visit Napoleon at Brienne, even though no boy could leave the school grounds for six years and visits by parents were restricted. In 1784 Napoleon was promoted to the Royal Military School in Paris and two years later he graduated as a second lieutenant and joined the 4th artillery regiment of la Fère based in Valence.
On 24 February 1785, Carlo died of stomach cancer, Letizia became a widow with eight children at the age of 35. Joseph, as the eldest son, was now the head of the family and returned to Corsica after finishing his studies at Collège d'Autun. In September 1786 Napoleon returned to Ajaccio, after eight years away, as a lieutenant in the Royal Army. He stayed until September 1787 The family financial situation worsened. Letizia had four children dependent on her as well as school fees to pay for Jerome and Joseph. Napoleon returned at the beginning of 1788 on a leave until June, the only breadwinner and as such the head of the family. He returned again in September 1789 entering Corsican politics with his brother Joseph.
In 1793, after Napoleon turned against Paoli, Letizia and her children fled to France on 31 May, while the partisans of Paoli pillaged and burned her house.
The family resettled in Toulon when the
Terror was at its peak. Letizia and her three daughters, to avoid being recognised as aristocrats, were described as "dressmakers" in the passports provided to them by Napoleon. After the British fleet took possession of the port of Toulon a month later the family moved to Marseilles. Penniless, Letizia had to queue for food at the soup kitchen. Her only income came from Napoleon's salary as an officer. In the Spring of 1794, after winning his first major battle as artillery commander during
the siege of Toulon, Napoleon became General de Brigade. With his new income he was able to move Letizia and the children to the in
Antibes
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.
Letizia disapproved of Napoleon's marriage to the widow
Joséphine de Beauharnais
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, on 9 March 1796, on which she was not consulted. When Joseph became ambassador at the court of Rome on 14 May 1796 she accompanied him to Italy. On 1 June 1797, after Napoleon's triumphant
First Italian Campaign, she visited him in Milan with Caroline and Jerome, then moved back to
Casa Buonaparte
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in Ajaccio, which had been rebuilt, renovated and redecorated for the occasion. Napoleon allowed his mother and uncle to exercise some supervision over the affairs of Corsica. The prefect of the island received orders not to make an appointment without consulting Letizia or Fesch. On 28 September 1799 Napoleon, returning from his successful
campaign in Egypt, stopped in Ajaccio and stayed with Letizia. On 7 October he left for Fréjus about to seize power in the bloodless coup d'état of
18 Brumaire
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, the beginning of his rise to power. Letizia moved to Paris. On the evening of 10 November 1799, while she was with her daughters at the Theatre, the play was interrupted and it was announced that an attack against Napoleon had just been foiled. She famously kept her composure and only left at the end of the performance. Even as the mother of the First Consul she was known to live in relative simplicity, receiving a monthly pension of 25,000 francs. When her son Lucien clandestinely married
Alexandrine de Bleschamp
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, known as Madame Jouberthon, against Napoleon's wishes, the brothers fell out. Letizia sided with Lucien and left Paris for Rome, where Pauline already lived as Princess Borghese, and where she stayed with her half-brother Cardinal Fesch. Lucien and his family soon followed her.
Mother of the Emperor
While Napoleon had made his brothers and sisters imperial highnesses, except Lucien and Jerome, Letizia did not have an official title yet. In July 1804,
Cardinal Fesch
Joseph Fesch, Prince of France (3 January 1763 – 13 May 1839) was a French priest and diplomat, who was the maternal half-uncle of Napoleon Bonaparte (half-brother of Napoleon's mother Laetitia). In the wake of his nephew, he became Archbishop ...
wrote to Napoleon, suggesting that a title be found for Letizia. By decree, she was given the title “Madame” but since this was also how the daughters of the king used to be called, “mother of his Majesty the Emperor” was added to the end. She became referred to as “Madame Mère” (Madame Mother).
On 2 December 1804, when Napoleon was crowned Emperor, despite being depicted in the famous
painting of the coronation of Napoleon by
David
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, Letizia Bonaparte did not attend her son's coronation. When she was congratulated on her son's successes, she famously replied: (Let's hope it lasts!).
On 19 December 1804, Letizia left Rome and took up residence at the
Hotel de Brienne
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, 92 rue Saint Dominique in Paris, a house that she purchased from Lucien for 600,000 francs. The Emperor gave her an appanage of 500,000 a year. She did not attend the Imperial court and lived from 1805 to 1813 at the Chateau de
Pont-sur-Seine
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, a castle that Napoleon gifted her. On the occasions when she visited Paris she resided at her Hotel de Brienne. In 1814, she shared Napoleon's exile on the island of
Elba
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with her daughter Pauline. In February 1815 she followed him to Paris during the
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, Letizia and Napoleon met for the last time at the château of Malmaison on 29 June 1815.
Later life and death
![Letizia_Ramolino](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Letizia_Ramolino.jpg)
After saying goodbye to Napoleon, she travelled from Paris to
Rome
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to be under the protection of
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. She purchased the former Palazzo Rinuccini, renamed
Palazzo Bonaparte (now Palazzo Misciatelli) on the corner of
piazza Venezia
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and Via del Corso, where she lived with Joseph. During her years in Rome, she lived in seclusion with very few visitors except for her brother, who rarely left her. Her great wealth acquired from jewellery and shrewd investment allowed her to live comfortably for the rest of her life. For a time the painter
Anna Barbara Bansi
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served as her companion.
She died in 1836, aged 85, three weeks before the 51st anniversary of her husband's death. By then she was nearly
blind and had outlived her most famous son Napoleon by 15 years. In 1851 Letizia's body was transferred to the Imperial Chapel specially built for it in her native Ajaccio. In 1951, Carlo's body was brought in a hundred years later, to rest next to her.
Issue
Letizia gave birth to thirteen children between 1768 and 1784; five of them died, two at birth and three in their infancy. Eight children survived.
* Napoleone Buonaparte (born and died 17 August 1765).
* Maria Anna Buonaparte (3 January 1767 – 1 January 1768).
*
Joseph Bonaparte
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, father = Carlo Buonaparte
, mother = Letizia Ramolino
, birth_date = 7 January 1768
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(7 January 1768 – 28 July 1844)
King of Naples
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(1806 – 1808),
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(1808 – 1813); married
Julie Clary
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on 1 August 1794.
*
Napoleon Bonaparte
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(15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821),
Emperor of the French
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(1804 – 1814; 1815); married vicomtesse
Joséphine de Beauharnais
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in 1796 (marriage annulled 1810); re-married to
Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
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,
Archduchess of Austria
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, on 1 April 1810.
* Maria Anna Buonaparte (born and died 1770)
* Maria Anna Buonaparte (14 July 1771 – 23 November 1771)
* A stillborn son (1773).
*
Lucien Bonaparte
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(21 March 1775 – 29 June 1840),
Prince of Canino and Musignano
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; married
Christine Boyer
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Born in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France, Boyer was the daught ...
on 5 May 1794; re-married to
Alexandrine de Bleschamp
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She was first married to the banker Hippolyte Jouberthon, with whom she had one child, Anne, ...
on 26 October 1803.
*
Maria Anna (Elisa) Bonaparte (3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820),
Grand Duchess of Tuscany
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(1804 – 1809), married
Felice Pasquale Baciocchi
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on 5 May 1797.
*
Louis Bonaparte
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(2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846),
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(1806 – 1810); married
Hortense de Beauharnais
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on 4 January 1802.
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Pauline Bonaparte
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(20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825), Sovereign Princess and Duchess of
Guastalla
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; married
General Charles Leclerc on 5 May 1797 (died 1802); re-married to
Prince Camillo Borghese on 28 August 1803.
*
Caroline Bonaparte
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(25 March 1782 – 18 May 1839),
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(1800 – 1815), Grand Duchess of
Jülich-Cleves-Berg; married
Joachim Murat
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King of Naples
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Kingdom of Naples (1282–1501)
House of Anjou
In 1382, the ...
in 1800.
*
Jérôme Bonaparte
Jérôme-Napoléon Bonaparte (born Girolamo Buonaparte; 15 November 1784 – 24 June 1860) was the youngest brother of Napoleon I and reigned as Jerome Napoleon I (formally Hieronymus Napoleon in German), King of Westphalia, between 1807 and 1 ...
(15 November 1784 – 24 June 1860), King of
Westphalia
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(1807 – 1813),
Prince of Montfort; married
Elizabeth Patterson on 24 December 1803 (marriage annulled 1806); re-married to princess
Catharina of Württemberg
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Katharina was born in Saint Pe ...
on 22 August 1807; married thirdly to
Justine Bartolini-Baldelli in 1840 (religious) and 19 February 1853 (civil).
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Letizia
Letizia () is a predominantly Italian feminine given name. People bearing the name Letizia include:
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1836 deaths
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