Elisa Napoleona Baciocchi Levoy (1806–1869) was a daughter of Elisa Bonaparte

Elisa Bonaparte

Maria Anna Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi Levoy, Princesse Française, Duchess of Lucca and Princess of Piombino, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Countess of Compignano was the fourth surviving child and eldest surviving daughter of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, making her the younger sister of...

, a sister to Napoleon I of France

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

, and Felice Baciocchi (and their only child to survive to adulthood).

Life

Elisa Napoléone Baciocchi Levoy was born at Lucca

Lucca

Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...

.

On 17 November 1824 she married count Filippo Camerata-Passionei di Mazzoleni (1805–1882) in Florence. They had one son, Charles Félix Jean-Baptiste Camerata-Passionei di Mazzoleni

Charles Félix Jean-Baptiste Camerata-Passionei di Mazzoleni

Charles Félix Jean-Baptiste Camerata-Passionei di Mazzoleni was a French-Italian aristocrat born in Ancona, the son of Filippo Camerata-Passionei di Mazzoleni, an Italian count, and Princess Elisa Napoléone Baciocchi, the daughter of Felice Baciocchi Levoy and Elisa Bonaparte...

, born in 1826. The couple separated shortly after their son's birth, and Elisa moved to Trieste, where she contacted the other exiled members of the Bonaparte family to try to re-establish Napoleon's only son, Napoleon François

Napoleon II of France

Napoléon II , after 1818 known as Franz, Duke of Reichstadt, was the son of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, and his second wife, Marie Louise of Austria...

, on the throne of France (left vacant since Charles X

Charles X of France

Charles X was known for most of his life as the Comte d'Artois before he reigned as King of France and of Navarre from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. A younger brother to Kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile and eventually succeeded him...

's abdication in 1830).

On Napoleon François's death in 1832, Elisa supported the rise of her cousin Louis-Napoleon and on his accession as emperor Napoleon III in 1852 she moved to Paris. There she obtained the title of maîtres des requêtes au Conseil d'État for her son, but he could not withstand the pressure of court life and died aged only 26 in mysterious circumstances. Deeply affected by her son's death, Elisa left the court and, after a brief stay in the Veneto

Veneto

Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

, settled for good in Brittany

Brittany

Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

, where she devoted herself to tilling her lands and creating a farm and several fisheries.

She also built the chateau of Korn-er-Hoüet at Colpo

Colpo

Colpo is a commune in the Morbihan department of the region of Brittany in north-western France.-External links:* * -References:* *...

, where she died in 1869 aged 63.