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Charles Bonaparte, free above all

2021-03-29T11:22:30.503Z


PORTRAIT - Born Charles Napoleon, he tells in a book how he not only changed his name but also renounced any dynastic claim.


Reading the Mémoires mixed with general reflections published by Charles Bonaparte (

La Liberté Bonaparte

, Grasset), one feels that this direct descendant of Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon I, is a wounded man.

Not like a colonel of cuirassiers dismantled by a cannonball at Waterloo;

rather like a man to whom a thwarted existence has learned to experience heart breaking.

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A warm exchange with him in his apartment on rue Lepic, in Paris, where one would look in vain for the slightest element of Bonapartist kitsch - sword, furniture, pennant, bee - confirms this impression.

We immediately get attached to this slender marathoner who is a head taller than his illustrious great-uncle.

Her conversation resembles her face;

she is straightforward, cordial, without evasiveness.

With the Napoleon of the rue Lepic, it is possible to address the reasons for annoyance which hover over a shady family history.

"I am reconciled with myself therefore reconciled

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Source: lefigaro

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