Dermide Leclerc | |
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| Full name | Dermide Louis Napoléon Leclerc |
| Born | 20 April 1798 Milan, Cisalpine Republic |
| Died | 14 August 1804 (aged 6) Frascati, Rome, Papal States |
| Buried | Château de Montgobert |
| Father | Charles Leclerc |
| Mother | Pauline Bonaparte |
Dermide Louis Napoléon Leclerc (20 April 1798 – 14 August 1804) was the only child of Pauline Bonaparte (later suo jure Duchess of Guastalla) and her first husband, French Army general Charles Leclerc. Through his mother, Dermide was a nephew of the future Emperor Napoleon I.
In 1802, during the Haitian Revolution, Dermide arrived on the island-colony of Saint-Domingue with his parents, as part of the Saint-Domingue expedition. After his father's death of yellow fever later during the year, Dermide and Pauline were brought back to France. In 1803, Pauline remarried, this time to Italian nobleman Camillo Borghese, and she took up residence, along with her husband and son, in Rome. Always a frail child, Dermide died of a fever at the age of six, three months after his uncle became Emperor and two years before his mother's proclamation as Duchess of Guastalla.