Carlo Maria Buonaparte (27/29 March 1746 – 24 February 1785) was a Corsican lawyer and politician who briefly served as a personal assistant of the revolutionary leader Pasquale Paoli and eventually rose to become Corsica’s representative to the court of Louis XVI. After his death his son Napoleon became Emperor of the French and several of his other children received royal titles from their brother.
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