Editing Joseph Bonaparte (section)

==Family==
[[File:Jacques-Louis David - The Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''[[The Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte]]'' by [[Jacques-Louis David]], 1821]]
Bonaparte married [[Julie Clary|Marie Julie Clary]], daughter of [[François Clary]] and his wife, on 1 August 1794 in [[Cuges-les-Pins]], France. They had three daughters: 
* Julie Joséphine Bonaparte ([[Genoa]], 29 February 1796 – Genoa, 6 June 1797).
* [[Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte]] (Paris, 8 July 1801 – [[Naples]], 8 August 1854); married in [[Brussels]] on 29 June 1822 to [[Charles Lucien Bonaparte]], 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (Paris, 24 May 1803 - Paris, 29 July 1857).
* [[Charlotte Napoléone Bonaparte]] (Paris, 31 October 1802 – [[Sarzana]], 2 March 1839); married in Brussels on 23 July 1826 to [[Napoléon Louis Bonaparte]] (Paris, 11 October 1804 - [[Rome]], 17 March 1831), formerly King of Holland and Grand-Duke of Berg, without issue.
He identified the two surviving daughters as his heirs.

He also fathered two children with Maria Giulia [[Colonna family|Colonna]], the Countess of [[Atri, Abruzzo|Atri]]:{{citation needed|date=March 2025}}
* Giulio (9 September 1807 – 1836), unmarried and without issue.
* Teresa (30 September/29 October 1808 – died in infancy).

Bonaparte had two American daughters born at [[Point Breeze (estate)|Point Breeze]], his estate in [[Bordentown, New Jersey]], by his mistress, Annette Savage of [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania ("Madame de la Folie"): 
* Pauline Josephann Holton (1819 - 6 December 1823).
* Caroline Charlotte Delafolie (New Jersey{{efn|Also listed as New York or Philadelphia}}, 1822<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCYK-THB|title=United States Census, 1850|website=FamilySearch}}</ref> - 25 December 1890); married [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] Zebulon Howell Benton<ref>This family was not related to the more famous T. H. Bentons, but Zebulon reportedly felt the name was appropriate.</ref> (27 January 1811 - 16 May 1893) of Jefferson County, New York, and had four daughters and three sons<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/growthofcenturya00hadd|title=Growth of a Century : as illustrated in the history of Jefferson County, New York, from 1793 to 1894|first=John A. 1823–|last=Haddock|date=26 October 1894|publisher=Philadelphia, Pa. : Sherman|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Caroline Charlotte Delafolie Bonaparte b. 1822 Philadelphia, PA, d. 25 Dec 1890: Geneagraphie – Families all over the world|url=https://geneagraphie.com/getperson.php?personID=I77957&tree=1|access-date=1 February 2021|website=geneagraphie.com}}</ref> 

Bonaparte had two more sons by Émilie (Hémart) Lacoste,<ref>Émilie would also later be the mistress of [[Prosper Mérimée]]</ref> wife of Félix Lacoste, founder of the [[Courrier des États-Unis]]:<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qxKuAgAAQBAJ | title=The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph | isbn=978-0-8122-3872-3 | last1=Stroud | first1=Patricia Tyson | date=13 May 2005 | publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press }}</ref> 
* Félix-Joseph-François Lacoste<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qxKuAgAAQBAJ | title=The Man Who Had Been King: The American Exile of Napoleon's Brother Joseph | isbn=978-0-8122-3872-3 | last1=Stroud | first1=Patricia Tyson | date=13 May 2005 | publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press }}</ref> (Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 22 March 1825 - Paris, 1859 or [[Neuilly]], 15 February 1922), married in [[Metz]] on 28 March 1857 Isabelle de Gerando (? - 1878), and had 2 sons.
* a son Lacoste (Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 22 March 1825 - died young)