Nobile Carlo Maria Buonaparte or
Carlo Maria di 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.