Nobile Carlo Maria Buonaparte (27/29 March 1746 – 24 February 1785) was a Corsican lawyer and politician who briefly served as a personal assistant of the revolutionary leader Pasquale Paoli and eventually rose to become Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI. After his death, his son Napoleon became Emperor of France, and several of his other children received royal titles from their brother.
He was born in Ajaccio, Corsica as the yo...
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Nobile Carlo Maria Buonaparte (27/29 March 1746 – 24 February 1785) was a Corsican lawyer and politician who briefly served as a personal assistant of the revolutionary leader Pasquale Paoli and eventually rose to become Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI. After his death, his son Napoleon became Emperor of France, and several of his other children received royal titles from their brother.
He was born in Ajaccio, Corsica as the youngest of three children. His father, Giuseppe Buonaparte, had represented Ajaccio to the council of Corte in 1749. Carlo initially followed in his father's footsteps and studied to be a Lawyer at the Pisa University, but he left after finishing part-way to marry Marie-Letizia Ramolino. Both were of Corsican nobility, and very young at the time of their marriage (Carlo was seventeen, and Marie was fourteen). Their marriage is often seen as one of economic convenience.
For a period after his marriage at Ajaccio on June 2/7, 1764, he worked as a...
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