Maria Letizia Ramolino

Maria Letizia Bonaparte , born Maria-Letizia Ramolino the dead August 24th 1750 the February 2nd 1836, is the mother of Napoleon I {{er}}, known under its title of Mrs Mère . She was the girl of Jean-Jerome Ramolino and Angela Maria Pietra-Santa (after the death of its husband, the latter remaria in second weddings with a Swiss officer, François Fesch, with whom she will have a son, Joseph, cardinal future and Primat of Gaules).

She was according to C. Mullié one of the more beautiful women of her time; its beauty was known in the island. Paoli, at the days of its power, having received an embassy of Tunis, and wanting to give to Barbaresque idea attractions of Corsica, gathered all the beauties of them: Mrs. Bonaparte held the first rank to with it.

Its family came originating in Italy, and from the counts of Colalto; the first which is established in Ajaccio had married the girl of the Doge de Gênes, and accepted this Republic of great distinctions.

She married Charles Marie Bonaparte on June 1st 1764 and gave him thirteen children of which eights survived:

  • Maria Anna Bonaparte (1770) named in homage of his/her older sister

  • Maria Anna Bonaparte (July 14th - November 23rd 1771) named in homage of his/her older sisters

  • a son still-born child

  • Elisa Bonaparte (January 3rd 1777 - August 7th 1820)

Present in Corsican resistance to with dimensions of her husband at the time of the annexation by the France in 1768, at the time of the war of independence, it often shared the dangers of her husband. It followed it to horse in its forwardings, even during its pregnancy of Napoleon.

This lady which, after the decisive failure of Laying-Novo, had been withdrawn with her husband on the top del Monte Rotondo, had received from Mr. count of Vaux passports to go to Ajaccio. Its tears and supplications of Lucien Bonaparte, archdeacon of Ajaccio, uncle of her husband, made give up this one the intention that it had formed to follow Paoli in his exile.

She knew poverty with the death of her husband in 1785.

Only the entry in soldiering of its second wire Napoleon, made it possible the family to join again with a pretense of prosperity. In 1793, it had to flee the Corsica insurgent and to settle with Marseilles. From this time, it preserved an unquestionable taste for the austerity and the economy.

Such a character could not be meant with extravagant the Joséphine de Beauharnais that the future Emperor of the French married in 1796. As opposed to what believe celebrates it table of David could let, it did not assist besides with the sacring of her son in 1804 because of their dissensions on his marriage and its crowning. For as much, it was raised, by decree of the March 23rd 1805, with the row of imperial Highness and Mrs Mère. Living far from the Court, it settled with the castle of Pont-sur-Seine, offered by her son, and remained with the Hotel of Brienne at the time of its rare visits with Paris.

Deeply religious, it was put under the protection of the Pape at the time of the Napoleonean exiles and settled in Italy, with Rome, initially with the Falconieri palate in her half-brother the cardinal Joseph Fesch, then with the Rinuccini palate. It is there that she learned death from her son Napoleon the May 5th 1821 and that she dies the February 2nd 1836. Buried with Corneto, its skin is transferred to Ajaccio in 1851, then with the imperial Vault in 1860 on the order of its grandson Napoleon III.

Quotations

It is at the origin of the expression " Provided that lasts " that it employed to speak about the victories of her son Napoleon i (information drawn from the Petit Larousse of the French history).

May 9th, 1769 at the time of the retirement of Laying-Nuovo it is pregnant of Napoleon. She would have repeated several times in the rise of Assembles-Rotondo where the Corsican patriots found refuge. " He will be the avenger of Corse". (Andre Castelot- Bonaparte)

" It is with my mother that I owe my fortune and all that I made of bien" Napoleon

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