Napoleon’s younger and favorite sibling Pauline Bonaparte steered clear of politics. She chose a life of amorous adventures, known for her love affairs and beauty
Pauline Bonaparte, younger sister to Napoleon, was her brother’s favorite of their seven siblings. She was the only one who took no part in his political power plays. While her siblings were placed on thrones all over Europe, Pauline was quoted as saying: “I do not care for crowns. If I had wished for one, I should have had it; but I left that taste to my relations.”
“Few women have savored more the pleasure of being beautiful,” the French general Louis Stanislas de Girardin wrote of her. For Napoleon himself, she was “the best living creature” and “the only one who never asks for anything.” Though often frivolous and feckless, Pauline had a loyal and courageous side too. She was the only one of his siblings to visit Napoleon when he was exiled to the island of Elba in 1814 after his failed military campaign in Russia.
Pauline ... was then in the full brilliance of her beauty ... Few women have savored more the pleasure of being beautiful.Despite the death of her father when she was five, Pauline grew up in the bosom of a comfortable family until her early teens. Then, in 1793, times got harder: Her brother Lucien became embroiled in a political controversy, forcing the family to flee Corsica for the French mainland. Once in Marseille, they lived in straitened circumstances.
Leclerc’s successes were short-lived. Renewed fighting coincided with an outbreak of yellow fever that began to decimate the French troops. Amid declining morale, Pauline provided social diversion, with herself at the center, by hosting balls and fetes. She also turned the family’s mansion into a field hospital. Leclerc urged his wife to return to France, but she refused. Leclerc wrote to Napoleon that she chose to follow her husband’s fortunes for “good or ill.
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