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Carlo Maria Buonaparte

Anne–Louis Girodet de Roussy–Trioson, Portrait of Carlo Maria Buonaparte. Ajaccio,  Hôtel de ville, Salon Napoléonien
Anne–Louis Girodet de Roussy–Trioson, Portrait of Carlo Maria Buonaparte. Ajaccio, Hôtel de ville, Salon Napoléonien

Carlo Maria Buonaparte (Ajaccio, 29 March 1746–Montpellier, 24 February 1785), belonged to the Corsican nobility and studied law in Pisa and Rome, but on the eve of the passage of Corsica from the Republic of Genoa to France (1768) he returned to his homeland to become, in 1767, private secretary to Pasquale Paoli, the leading politician in the Corsican struggle for independence. After the defeat of the movement for national independence and Paoli’s exile, Carlo Maria adhered to the French cause and was inserted into the newly–constituted Corsican Order of Nobility. Representative of Corsica at the court of Louis XVI starting in the year 1778, he died in Montpelier in 1785 of a stomach tumour, leaving behind his wife Letizia Ramolino, the young Napoleon, who was sixteen years old, and twelve other children.