Christine Boyer

Catherine Christine Eléonore Boyer (3 July 1771 – 14 May 1800) was a member of the Bonaparte family as the first wife of Lucien Bonaparte, a younger brother of Napoleon.

Life

Born in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France, Boyer was the daughter of Pierre André Boyer and Rosalie Fabre.^{[citation needed]} Other explain that she was the sister of an innkeeper with whom Lucien had lodged in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume.^[1] Christine was illiterate, and unable to sign her own name.^{[citation needed]}

Bonaparte and Boyer married on 4 May 1794.^{[citation needed]} The couple were married hastily, and without the consent of the Bonaparte family.^{[citation needed]} Lucien's brother Napoleon and their mother, Letizia, were displeased with the match.^{[citation needed]}

Issue

The couple had four children, of whom two daughters had descendants.

• Filistine Charlotte (Saint-Maximin, 28 February 1795 – 1865, Rome); married first, 1815, Prince Mario Gabrielli. She married secondly, 1842, Cavaliere Settimio Centamori. She had eight children by her first husband:
• a son (1796–1796) ;
• Victoire Gertrude (1797–1797) ;
• Christine-Egypta (Paris, 18 October 1798 – Rome, 1847); married first, 1818, Count Arvid Posse. This ended in divorce in 1824. She married secondly, 1824, Lord Dudley Stuart. She had one child, a son, by her second husband.^[2]

Death

Boyer died in Paris, in childbirth.^[1] She was buried in the Santi Apostoli Giovanni e Andrea cemetery in Canino, Lazio, Italy.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

• Lucien Bonaparte à Saint-Maximin, Yacinthe Saint-German Leca

References

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