Background
Jeanne-Françoise Valliccioni was born in Ortiporio, Corsica, on 26 March 1958. Eldest daughter of Paul Valliccioni and wife Padoue née Piacentini (d on 14 June 2011).
Jeanne-Françoise Valliccioni was born in Ortiporio, Corsica, on 26 March 1958. Eldest daughter of Paul Valliccioni and wife Padoue née Piacentini (d on 14 June 2011).
Her marriage to the heir to the Napoleonic legacy was contracted without the prior consent or subsequent acceptance of the bridegroom"s father, Louis, Prince Napoléon, then head of the former imperial dynasty. After his death, his will cited the unapproved marriage as one of the grounds for the decision to bypass Charles in the line of succession to the former French Imperial throne in favour of Prince Jean Christophe Napoléon, who was born of Charles Napoléon"s dissolved first marriage to Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Charles Napoléon has publicly rejected the applicability of that law and of the effects of dynastic disinheritance by his father, maintaining that he inherited by right and retains representation of Napoleon"s imperial legacy.
When Charles and Jeanne-Françoise married, they already had a daughter, Sophie Cathérine Napoléon (born in Paris, 18 April 1992).
In 1998, the couple adopted a daughter of Vietnamese extraction, Anh Napoléon (born in Ho Chi Minh City on 22 April 1998).
Article 6 of the French Empire"s constitution, as modified by the Senatus Consultus of 7 November 1852, stipulated that "..The members of the family of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte eligible for the succession, and their descendants of both sexes, are members of the Imperial family..They may not marry without the Emperor"s authorization.