Caroline Bonaparte
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Carolina Maria Annunziata Bonaparte, better known as Caroline Bonaparte, was an Imperial French princess; the seventh child and third daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, and a younger s
Portrait by François Gérard, c. 1810–1812
Portrait of Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1814. Vesuvius can be seen in the background.
Caroline Bonaparte in traditional Neapolitan dress.
Princess Caroline Bonaparte.
Joachim Murat
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Joachim Murat was a Marshal of the Empire, regarded as the foremost cavalry commander of the Napoleonic Wars, who reigned as King of Naples as Joachim-Napoleon from 1808 to 1815. A brother-in-law of N
Caroline Bonaparte
…during the reign of her husband there, and regent of Naples during his absence four times: in 1812–1813, 1813, 1814, and 1815. In 1800, Caroline married Joachim Murat, Marshal of the Empire, Prince Murat and later King of Naples, one of Napoleon's most important and notorious generals. The Bonaparte family includes…
Portrait c. 1808
Murat at the Battle of Abukir, painted by Antoine-Jean Gros (1804)
Murat in hussar uniform as commander of the Consular Guard, by François Gérard (1801)
Joachim Murat's signature, brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte, at the bottom of a letter of complaint in 1807.