Pauline Bonaparte was born on Oct. 20, 1780 in Ajaccio, Corsica. Her parents were Carlo Bonaparte and Maria Letizia Bonaparte, minor Corsican nobility who sided with France as Corsica shifted away ...

After marrying Carlo Bonaparte, she birthed an empire. She desired twenty children, but Carlo’s death halted her one-woman army at thirteen. On the morning of Napoleon’s birth, she left her house to ...

Officially, the great Frenchman was the son of Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer, and Letizia, reputed to be one of the most beautiful women on the Mediterranean island. But Carlo, a spendthrift and a ...

Napoleon was born in Ajaccio, on the island of Corsica, to the Buonaparte family, who were of noble Italian-Corsican ancestry. His father, Carlo Buonaparte was Corsica's representative to the ...