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Élisa Napoléone Baciocchi

Pietro Nocchi, Portrait of Élisa and her daughter, Élisa Napoléona. Ajaccio, Musée Fesch
Pietro Nocchi, Portrait of Élisa and her daughter, Élisa Napoléona. Ajaccio, Musée Fesch

Élisa Napoléeone Baciocchi (Lucca, 1806 – Morbihan, 1869) was the daughter of Élisa Bonaparte and Felice Baciocchi. The sweet little girl with the curly hair so often portrayed with her mother in portraits was the only one among the couple’s children to live to old age. She led a long and adventurous life, in the chapters of which it is not difficult to discern traces of her mother’s energy.

She married Count Filippo Camerata–Passionei of Mazzoleni (1805 – 1882) in 1824, but the couple soon separated. Élisa then moved with her son, Napoleon Felice Carlo Antonio, to Trieste, where she remained until 1852. In that year, when her cousin Louis Napoléon was proclaimed the Emperor of France under the name Napoleon III, Élisa moved to Paris. There, following serious economic difficulties, her son, not yet thirty years old, committed suicide. This tragic event devastated Élisa and she left the French capital to move to Brittany, where she died in 1869 at the agricultural estate Korn–er–Hoüet, which she herself had commissioned to be built.