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4 unusual facts about Charlotte Bonaparte Gabrielli


Charlotte Bonaparte Gabrielli

She was represented by the French painter Jean-Baptiste Wicar as a young peasant woman in a life-size portrait, today in the collections of the Napoleonic Museum in Rome.

She became princess Gabrielli following her marriage to Mario Gabrielli, prince of Prossedi and Roccasecca, duke of Pisterzo.

As a consequence of the increasingly abrasive relationship between Lucien and Napoleon, in August 1810 Charlotte, her father, stepmother Alexandrine de Bleschamps, siblings and household attempted to sail to the United States, but were captured by the British and forced to reside in England until the fall of Napoleon (1814).

Pompeo Gabrielli

He bequeathed his estate to his nephew prince Placido Gabrielli, the only son of his brother Mario Gabrielli and Princess Charlotte Bonaparte.



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