Pauline Bonaparte
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Paula Maria Bonaparte Leclerc Borghese, better known as Pauline Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess, the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, and the princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. S
Pauline Bonaparte by Robert Lefèvre
Portrait of Pauline by François-Joseph Kinson, 1808
Venus Victrix, by Antonio Canova, depicting Princess Borghese as a deity, created 1804-1808. It was commissioned by her husband.
Divisional-General Charles Victoire Emmanuel Leclerc was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. He was the husband of Pauline Bonaparte, the younger sister of Napoleon. In
Pauline Bonaparte
…Carlo Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI. Her elder brother, Napoleon, was the first emperor of the French. She married Charles Leclerc, a French general, a union ended by his death in 1802. Later, Pauline married Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona. Her only child, Dermide Leclerc…
Portrait by François Kinson, 1804
French sailors drowning Black prisoners under Leclerc's orders
Statue of Leclerc in Pontoise