Pauline Bonaparte

Pauline Bonaparte
Princess of Guastalla Princess consort of Sulmona and of Rossano
Portrait by Robert Lefèvre, 1809
Duchess of Guastalla
Reign	24 March 1806 – 14 August 1806[1]
Predecessor	Ferdinand
Successor	Duchy annexed by Parma
Born	(1780-10-20)20 October 1780 Maison Bonaparte, Ajaccio, Corsica
Died	9 June 1825(1825-06-09) (aged 44) Florence, Tuscany
Burial	Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Rome
Spouse	Gén. Charles Leclerc ​ ​ (m. 1797; died 1802)​ Camillo, 6th Prince of Sulmona ​ ​ (m. 1803)​
Issue	Dermide Leclerc
Names Maria Paola Bonaparte
House	Bonaparte
Father	Carlo Maria Buonaparte
Mother	Letizia Ramolino
Religion	Roman Catholicism
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Paula Maria Bonaparte Leclerc Borghese (French: Pauline Marie Bonaparte; 20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825), better known as Pauline Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess, the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, and the princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI of France. 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, born from her first marriage, died in childhood. She was the only Bonaparte sibling to visit Napoleon in exile on his principality, Elba.