Pauline Bonaparte
| Pauline Bonaparte | |||||
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| Princess of Guastalla Princess consort of Sulmona and of Rossano | |||||
Portrait by Robert Lefèvre, 1809 | |||||
| Duchess of Guastalla | |||||
| Reign | 30 March 1806 – 14 August 1806 | ||||
| Predecessor | Ferdinand | ||||
| Successor | Duchy annexed by Parma | ||||
| Co-ruler | Camillo Borghese | ||||
| Born | 20 October 1780 Maison Bonaparte, Ajaccio, Corsica | ||||
| Died | 9 June 1825 (aged 44) Florence, Tuscany | ||||
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| Spouses | |||||
| Issue | Dermide Leclerc | ||||
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| 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, pronounced [pɔlin maʁi bɔnapaʁt]; 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.