Talk:Carlo Buonaparte

message: This article should give much more depth to Carlo's life in France. The article misses too many facts - very important ones - related to how his decisions created his son's destiny as Napoleon, Emperor of France. First of all, the Bonaparte family was not penniless per se. They had a spartan lifestyle but in Corsica they were getting supported by their Corsican archdeacon Lucien Bonaparte. Carlo went to France with strong distinguished support in getting that assignment - one being Gen. de Marbeuf (some suspect him of being Napoleon's real father through a supposed affair with Napoleon's mother Letitia Ramolini/Bonaparte). Most importantly, it was Carlo who took his sons Napoleon and Joseph to France to get them educated. Carlo struggled to make ends meet while in Paris. His sons started off in Autun prep school; Joesph was put on the path to religious clergy education after, while Napoleon was brought to the distinguished Brienne military school in 1779. While Carlo financially struggled in Paris, Archdeacon Lucien in Corsica supported Napoleon's mother and his 6 other siblings at their home. While at Versailles, enduring begging, borrowing and scrimping, Carlo finally managed to get the state to pay for Napoleon's education at Brienne. Carlo as a father supported his children and Napoleon studied exceptionally hard knowing both of his parents' sacrifices for him and his siblings. This article should mention these important facts because the impression one gets is that Carlo was a wholly blundering loser, when in fact he set the path to his families ultimate fortunes through his early shaping of Napoleon's destiny.--Joey123xz (talk) 13:04, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life in France 

message: User:RandomCanadian appears to be edit-warring on this article. Could he please explain himself? Thanks, Mathsci (talk) 19:48, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: is unambiguously stalking me around and adding parent/child category duplicates despite probably knowing quite well that is not an ideal solution, seemingly in an attempt to spite me or to get me to do something unreasonable. I have muted you, to prevent any further excess. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs)  19:53, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This article and a second page were on my watchist because of this edit by me where I mentioned the family of Bonaparte. I was the first editor to point that out.  What does that mean? Mathsci (talk) 20:49, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello , RandomCanadian is right :Category:People from Ajaccio takes over from :Category:People from Corsica like I have explained on Talk:Letizia_Bonaparte. Regarding :Category:Italian Roman Catholics it's different, I would re-add it as the Republic of Genoa, of which Corsica was part of when Carlo Buonaparte was born, was an Italian city-state and the Buonaparte descended from Italian nobility of Tuscan origin. Regards Aeengath (talk) 11:07, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks  Dorothy Carrington should also be moved. I haven't checked any others. [I almost confused her with the Bloomsbury Carrington! A French friend showed me a copy of the death register of Angelica Garnett from the Hotel de Ville in Aix; exiled to Forcalquier, Angelica retired to Aix.] I haven't made any edits related to Genoa, apart for edits some time back related to the Great Plague of Marseille, where quarantine was broken by a boat from Livorno (?). Regards, Mathsci (talk) 12:45, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit-warring 

message: I thought the Portrait of Carlo was a posthumous portrait commissioned by Napoleon. Orson12345 (talk) 20:14, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portrait