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Napoleon's father was born on March 29, 1746 in Ajaccio , Corsica.
He died of stomach cancer on February 24, 1785 in Montpellier, Languedoc.
"Charles-Marie Bonaparte". Anonymous of the nineteenth century.
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"Charles-Marie Bonaparte", posthumous portrait by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson (1767-1824).
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"Charles-Marie Bonaparte". Nineteenth century lithography.