Maison Bonaparte

Coordinates: 41°55′04″N 8°44′18″E / 41.9179°N 8.7383°E / 41.9179; 8.7383
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The room where Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769

Maison Bonaparte[1] (Corsican and Italian: Casa Buonaparte) is the ancestral home of the Bonaparte family. It is located on the Rue Saint-Charles in Ajaccio on the French island of Corsica. The house was almost continuously owned by members of the family from 1682 to 1923.

History

1895 sketch of Casa Buonaparte

Maria Letizia Ramolino. With the exception of Joseph Bonaparte, all of their children were born in the Casa Buonaparte.[2]

Eight years after Carlo Bonaparte's death in 1785, the family came into conflict with the increasingly reactionary nationalist leader, Pasquale Paoli, and was forced to flee to the French mainland.[3] Paoli's followers looted and burned much of the Casa Buonaparte. After the arrival of Admiral Samuel Hood, British officers were also billeted there. According to legend, Hudson Lowe lived there briefly; however, it is unknown if this is true.[2]

After the withdrawal of British troops from Corsica in 1797, the Bonaparte family returned to the Casa Buonaparte and began repairing and remodeling it with funds provided by the Directory.

The house museum in July 2008

When the Bonaparte family left Corsica again in 1799, they left the house in the care of Napoleon's

Prince Victor Napoleon who donated the house to the French government. In 1967, the house was made into a museum and declared a national museum.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Musée de la Maison Bonaparte à Ajaccio" (in French). Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  2. ^ a b "Napoleon and Corsica, "The Imperial Route"". Fondation Napoléon. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
  3. ISBN 0-06-092958-8
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  4. ^ "National Museum of the Bonaparte Residence in Corsica". Fondation Napoléon. Retrieved 2008-09-27.

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