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The Berthier family, after Berthier

Napoléon-Alexandre, peer of France at the age of five, Prince of Wagram at the age of seven with a hereditary duchy-peerage, married in 1831 Zénaïde Clary, niece of Julie and Désirée Clary, themselves wives of Joseph Bonaparte and of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (since 1818 became King of Sweden and Norway). [...] Napoleon-Alexandre did not enter like his father in the military trade; he devoted himself to his domain of Grosbois, becoming a true gentleman-farmer. He was elected mayor of Boissy-Saint Léger and general councilor in the department of Seine-et-Oise. During the Second Empire, he became a senator. In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian war, the Grosbois estate was occupied by a Bavarian regiment which behaved correctly due to family ties. The second prince of Wagram died in 1887.

His son Alexandre-Louis-Philippe (1836-1911) resumed his father's life as a rural rentier, however marrying a member of the Rothschild family. He pushed his son Louis-Marie (1883-1918) into the career of arms. Mobilized in 1914, he was promoted captain in 1915 before being wounded and taken prisoner in 1918. Badly treated, he died in a German hospital. With the death of this prince the Wagram dynasty died out.

Berthier's two daughters, Lina (Caroline) and Anna (Anne-Wilhelmine), married respectively the Count d'Hautpoul, son of a general who died in Eylau, and the Count of Plaisance, grandson of the consul then architresorier Lebrun. Anna, a worthy daughter of her father, had a great Italian passion with Prince Emilio Belgiojoso. In 1843, they settled on the shores of Lake Como where the prince had a property. They lived there for ten years despite the scandal. Both daughters' posterity was important, allying members of the old nobility to others of the nobility of the Empire: in particular, the families of Broglie, Toulouse-Lautrec, Maillé, Noailles, Cossé-Brissac, Choiseul-Praslin, rubbed shoulders with the Lannes of Montebello, Murat, Suchet d'Albuféra, Lejeune ...

As for the name of the Berthiers, it is still carried by the Viscounts Berthier, from General Joseph-Alexandre Berthier, the Marshal’s half-brother.

Franck Favier - Berthier, l’ombre de Napoléon