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.
Don Camillo Filippo Ludovico Borghese, Prince of Sulmona and of Rossano, Duke and Prince of Guastalla, was a member of the Borghese family and was best known for being a brother-in-law of Napoleon. In
Pauline Bonaparte
…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, born from her first marriage, died in childhood. She was the only Bonaparte sibling to visit Napoleon in exile on his…
Portrait by François Gérard
Portrait of Pauline Bonaparte