University of Notre Dame
Browse
IMAGE
France-Ajaccio-Napoleons-House-Reception-Room.jpg (912.41 kB)
.TIF
France-Ajaccio-Napoleons-House-Reception-Room.tif (310.91 MB)
TEXT
image_1965.xml (4.54 kB)
1/0
3 files

Napoleon's House: Interior, main salon

figure
posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00 authored by G. Massiot & cie
The family was descended from Charles-Marie [Carlo] Bonaparte (1746-1785), an advocate in Ajaccio, Corsica, who in 1764 married Maria-Letizia Ramolino (1750-1836). He had inherited the four-story house. Four years after the Bonapartes' marriage, Corsica was ceded by Genoa to become part of metropolitan France; consequently the second of their eight surviving children, Napoleon Bonaparte, became a military cadet in France. Empress Eug\u00E9nie refurbished and expanded the house in 1869 in order to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Napoleon's birth. The house was almost continuously owned by members of the family from 1682 to 1923. In 1967, the house was made into a museum.

History

Alt Title

Casa Buonaparte

Date Created

1910-01-01

Date Modified

2017-06-30

Spatial Coverage

+41.9179+8.7383|Ajaccio Corsica, France|Ajaccio

Temporal Coverage

before or circa 1910

Cultural Context

['Seventeenth century', 'Nineteenth century', 'Empire']

Rights Statement

To view the physical lantern slide, please contact the Architecture Library.

Usage metrics

    Rare Books and Special Collections

    Categories

    No categories selected

    Exports

    RefWorks
    BibTeX
    Ref. manager
    Endnote
    DataCite
    NLM
    DC