page_title: Carlo Buonaparte
hierarchical_section_title: Carlo Buonaparte
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Inconnu English: Portrait of a man, presumably Carlo Maria Buonaparte (1746-1785), father of Napoleon Bonaparte. This is one of few portraits of the father of Napoleon. In this half–length posthumous portrait, Carlo Maria (1746-1785) is dressed as a gentleman of the Ancien Régime with powdered wig and a coat laced with gold.
context_page_description: Carlo Maria Buonaparte or Charles-Marie Bonaparte was an Italian lawyer and diplomat, best known as the father of Napoleon Bonaparte.
  He served briefly as a personal assistant of the revolutionary leader Pasquale Paoli, and fought with the Corsican resistance against the French during the occupation of Corsica. With the island conquered and the resistance defeated, he eventually rose to become Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI. It was well after his death that his second surviving son, Napoleon, became Emperor of the French; subsequently, several of Buonaparte's other children received royal titles from their brother, and married into royalty.
context_section_description: Carlo Maria Buonaparte or Charles-Marie Bonaparte (27 March 1746 – 24 February 1785) was an Italian lawyer and diplomat, best known as the father of Napoleon Bonaparte.
  He served briefly as a personal assistant of the revolutionary leader Pasquale Paoli, and fought with the Corsican resistance against the French during the occupation of Corsica. With the island conquered and the resistance defeated, he eventually rose to become Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI. It was well after his death that his second surviving son, Napoleon, became Emperor of the French; subsequently, several of Buonaparte's other children received royal titles from their brother, and married into royalty.
caption: Carlo Buonaparte
  (posthumous portrait)
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