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That is not necessarily true... Laure Junot, Duchess of Abrantès wrote the book "Memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon" in which she claims Napoleon was of Greek Decent on his Fathers side. Laure was born at Montpellier, the daughter of Charles Martin de Permond and his wife Panoria, to whom during her widowhood the young Napoleon Bonaparte made an offer of marriage. Her mother, Panoria, was descended from the Comnene family, the last Greek dynasty from the Empire of Trebizond. The Martin de Permond family, after various vicissitudes, settled at Paris, and Bonaparte certainly frequented their house a good deal after the downfall of the Jacobin party in Thermidor 1794.
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