Augusta Bonaparte Gabrielli

Augusta Amélie Maximilienne Jacqueline Bonaparte (9 November 1836 – 29 March 1900) was a French-Italian Napoleonic princess. Biography Augusta was born at Villa Bonaparte in Rome, the daughter of Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 2nd prince of Canino and Musignano, and Zénaïde Bonaparte, who had been Infanta of Spain as the daughter of Joseph Bonaparte. She was privately educated. In 1855, on the occasion of her engagement to her cousin , prince of Prossedi, her father, the famed ornithologist, named the emerald dove of the Nicobar Islands in her honour. The Chalcophaps indica augusta (Bonaparte, 1855) is also known as Princess Gabrielli's dove. A few months later, on 1 February 1856, Augusta and Placido (himself the son of princess Charlotte Bonaparte Gabrielli) celebrated their marriage in the Chapelle Impériale of the Palais des Tuileries in Paris. Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie attended the ceremony.