Christine Boyer

Born in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France, Boyer was the daughter of Pierre André Boyer and Rosalie Fabre.^[1] Other explain that she was the sister of an innkeeper with whom Lucien had lodged in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume.^[2] Christine was illiterate, and unable to sign her own name.^[3]

Lucien Bonaparte and Christine Boyer married on 4 May 1794.^[4] The couple were married hastily, and without the consent of the Bonaparte family.^[4] Lucien's brother Napoleon and their mother, Letizia, were displeased with the match.^{[citation needed]}

The couple had four children, of whom two daughters had descendants.

• Filistine Charlotte (Saint-Maximin, 28 February 1795 – 1865, Rome); married first, 1815, Prince Mario Gabrielli. She married secondly, 1842, Cavaliere Settimio Centamori. She had eight children by her first husband.
• a son (1796–1796) :
• Victoire Gertrude (1797–1797) ;
• Christine Charlotte Alexandrine Égypta (Paris, 18 October 1798 – Rome, 1847); married first, 1818, Swedish Count Arvid Posse. This ended in divorce in 1824. She married secondly, 1824, Lord Dudley Stuart. She had one child, a son, by her second husband.^[5][6]

Boyer died in Paris, in childbirth.^[2] She was buried in the Santi Apostoli Giovanni e Andrea cemetery in Canino, Lazio, Italy.^{[citation needed]} According to other source, she fell gravely ill with a pulmonary disease and died at Château du Plessis-Chamant, near Paris, on 14 May, at age twenty-eight. She was pregnant; the unborn child died with her. She was buried in the park of Le Plessis and the devastated widower Lucien Bonaparte erected a monument of white marble to her memory.^[7][6]