Roland Napoléon Bonaparte, 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano (19 May 1858 – 14 April 1924) was a French prince and president of the
Société de Géographie
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from 1910 until his death. He was the last male-lineage descendant 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 ...
, the genetically senior branch of the family since 1844.
Biography
Bonaparte was born in
Paris
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on 19 May 1858, the son of Prince
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte and
Éléonore-Justine Ruflin. He was a grandson 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 ...
, Emperor
Napoleon I
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 ...
's brother.
![Three Aboriginal Australians from 1885 in Paris](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Three_Aboriginal_Australians_from_1885_in_Paris.jpg)
Prince Roland was married in
Paris
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on 18 November 1880, to
Marie-Félix Blanc (1859–1882), the daughter of
François Blanc
François Blanc (; 12 December 1806 – 27 July 1877), nicknamed "The Magician of Homburg" and "The Magician of Monte Carlo", was a French entrepreneur and operator of casinos, including the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco. His daughter, Marie-Fà ...
. They had one daughter,
Marie Bonaparte
Princess Marie Bonaparte (2 July 1882 – 21 September 1962), known as Princess George of Greece and Denmark upon her marriage, was a French author and psychoanalyst, closely linked with Sigmund Freud. Her wealth contributed to the popularity o ...
(1882–1962).
In 1884, Bonaparte was part of a scientific expedition that photographed and anatomically measured the
Sami
Acronyms
* SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft
* Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company
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inhabitants of Northern Norway.
Special Exhibit: Laplander Studies by Roland Bonaparte
Retrieved December 14, 2022. The following year he was photographing Aboriginal Australians brought to Europe and the US to be studied by anthropologists and exhibited by the general public.
Bonaparte was the President of the Société astronomique de France (SAF), the French astronomical society, from 1921–1923.[de la Société astronomique de France'', November 1937, plates X-IX]
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On the death of his cousin Prince Napoléon Charles Bonaparte in 1899, he succeeded him as the 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano
The Princes of Canino and Musignano formed the genealogically senior line of the Bonaparte family following the death of Joseph Bonaparte in 1844. The line was succeeded by one of Emperor Napoleon's younger brothers, Lucien Bonaparte. It became e ...
, but he never assumed the title. With Prince Roland's death in Paris on 14 April 1924, the senior line of the House of Bonaparte descending from 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 ...
became extinct in the male line.
Legacy
Bonaparte Point
Bonaparte is an Italian surname. It derives from Italian ''bona'' (''buona'') 'good' and ''parte'' 'solution' or 'match' (a name bestowed as an expression of satisfaction at a newborn's arrival).
Bonaparte may refer to:
People
*The House of Bon ...
in Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...
was named after him by Jean-Baptiste Charcot
Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893).
Life
Jean- ...
. There is also a small lake on the mountains above the Coast Sámi/Norwegian
Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to:
*Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe
* Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway
* Demographics of Norway
*The Norwegian language, including ...
village Kvalsund
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which is called Bonapartesjøen - Lake Bonaparte - after his abovementioned visit to the region.
References
External links
Presidents of the Société de Géographie
1858 births
1924 deaths
Nobility from Paris
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French geographers
Presidents of the International Geographical Union
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
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