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| | Bonaparte, (Maria) Letizia -- biography |
 | | Letizia, who was considered a great beauty, married Carlo Buonaparte, a lawyer and member of a prominent but not very wealthy local family, on 1 June 1764. |
 | | At first they lived in the family home in Ajaccio, then for a brief period in 1768-9, when the French were attempting to gain military control of Corsica, Letizia joined her husband in the mountains, where he was fighting the invading forces. |
 | | By the time Carlo died prematurely, in 1785, there were eight surviving offspring, all of whom reached adulthood, and were destined to become kings, queens, princes, and princesses. |
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