Who was Charles-Marie Bonaparte?
On 27 March 1746, Carlo Maria Buonaparte also called Charles-Marie Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio Corsica (then a part of the Republic of Genoa) as the youngest of three children. Family His parents were Giuseppe Buonaparte, who had represented Ajaccio at the Council of Corte in 1749 and Maria Saveria Paravicini. The Corsican Buonapartes were descended from minor Italian nobility of Tuscan origin, who had come to Corsica from Liguria in the 16th. century. Carlo studied to be a lawyer at the Pisa University but he left before earning his degree to take charge of family responsibilities. Love and marriage Carlo married Donna Maria Letizia Ramolino. Both were of Corsican nobility and very young at the time of their marriage. Carlo was 17, Letizia was 13! Their marriage was arranged. They would have 13 children between 1768 and 1784. Five of them died, eight children survived. Among them: Napoleon Bonaparte, who became later Emperor of the French. Gaining Power In June 1764, Carlo wo