Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte

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Zenaïde Bonaparte (in front) and her sister Charlotte, commissioned during the winter of 1821, by David.

Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, Princess of Canino and Musignano (8 July 1801 – 1854) was the elder daughter of Joseph Bonaparte and Julie Clary, and the wife of Charles Lucien Bonaparte, who was also her cousin. She joined her father in his Bordentown, New Jersey exile for several years.

On 29 June 1822, in Brussels, she married her cousin, her Uncle Lucien's son, Charles Lucien Bonaparte. Her father Joseph had suggested the marriage to his wife when Zénaïde was only five; the idea was to carry on the Napoleonic succession (a return to power was always anticipated) by marrying his two daughters to sons of two of his brothers.^[1] The wedding was met with surprisingly little fanfare, perhaps because Zénaïde's mother was outraged at the excessive sum of the dowry (730,000 francs, which was unreasonable considering that Lucien's villa in Rome had cost only 150,000), which had strained her resources.^[1]

Charles was an ornithologist (who named the Zenaida doves after her). They had twelve children, including Lucien Cardinal Bonaparte.

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Bibliography

• Stroud, Patricia Tyson. The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. ISBN 0812235460.

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