Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution. Napoleon was born in Corsica to a relatively modest family originating from minor Italian nobility.

Napoleon married Joséphine de Beauharnais in 1796, when he was 26; she was a 32-year-old widow. Joséphine did not produce an heir. Napoleon chose divorce so he could remarry in search of an heir to carry on his legacy. Despite his divorce from Josephine, Napoleon showed his dedication to her his entire life. When he heard the news of her death, he locked himself in his room and would not come out for two full days. Her name would also be his final word on his deathbed in 1821.

On 1 March 1810, he married the 19-year-old Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria, and a great niece of Marie Antoinette. Thus he had married into a German royal and imperial family.

Napoleon and Marie Louise remained married until his death, though she did not join him in exile and thereafter never saw her husband again. The couple had one child, Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles (1811–1832), known from birth as the King of Rome.

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