Elisa Napoléone Baciocchi Levoy (3 June 1806 – 3 February 1869) was the daughter of

Felice Baciocchi Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (18 May 1762 – 27 April 1841) was born at Ajaccio into a noble, but poor, Corsican family. He was second lieutenant in the French army The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (french: Armée de Terre, ), i ...

and

Elisa Bonaparte Maria Anna Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi Levoy (French: ''Marie Anne Elisa Bonaparte''; 3 January 1777 – 7 August 1820), better known as Elisa Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess and sister of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was Princess of Lucca ...

, who was Princess of Lucca and Piombino and a sister of

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 wh ...

. She was their only child to live beyond their teenage years.

Life

Princess Elisa Napoléone Baciocchi Levoy was born at

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in the Principality of Lucca and Piombino, where her mother was the ruling princess. On 17 November 1824, she married Count Filippo Camerata-Passionei di Mazzoleni (1805–1882) in

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. They had one son, Charles Félix Jean-Baptiste Camerata-Passionei di Mazzoleni, born in 1826. The couple separated shortly after their son's birth, and Elisa moved to

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, where she contacted other exiled members of the Bonaparte family to try to re-establish Napoleon's only son, Napoleon François, on the throne of France. On Napoleon François's death in 1832, Elisa supported the rise of her cousin Louis-Napoleon and on his accession as emperor

Napoleon III Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A neph ...

in 1852, she moved to Paris. There, she obtained the title of ''maîtres des requêtes au Conseil d'État'' for her son, but he could not withstand the pressure of court life and died at the age of 26, under mysterious circumstances. Deeply affected by her son's death, Elisa left the court and, after a brief stay in the

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, settled for good in

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, where she devoted herself to tilling her lands and creating a farm and several fisheries. She built the chateau of Korn-er-Hoüet at Colpo, where she died in 1869, aged 62.

Gallery

File:Napoleona Elisa Baciocchi by Benoist.jpg, Portrait by

Marie-Guillemine Benoist Marie-Guillemine Benoist, born Marie-Guillemine de Laville-Leroux (December 18, 1768 – October 8, 1826), was a French neoclassical, historical, and genre painter. Biography Benoist was born in Paris, the daughter of a civil servant. Her trai ...

, 1810 File:Elisa Bonaparte with her daughter Napoleona Baciocchi - François Gérard - Google Cultural Institute.jpg, Elisa and her mother by

François Gérard François Pascal Simon Gérard (, 4 May 1770 – 11 January 1837), titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a prominent French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was It ...

, 1811 File:Lorenzo Bartolini - Napoléone-Elisa Baciocchi.jpg, ''Élisa Napoléone Baciocchi et son chien'',

Lorenzo Bartolini Lorenzo Bartolini (Prato, 7 January 1777 Florence, 20 January 1850) was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentin ...

, 1812

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1806 births 1869 deaths House of Bonaparte Nobility from the Republic of Lucca {{europe-noble-stub