Avenue du Baron Mariani

Baron Antoine Dominique Marianiwas a high-ranking French civil servant during the First Empire. Born in Muracciole de Vivario (Corsica), September 15, 1776, died December 8, 1845, he was the son of Joseph Marie Mariani and Marie Madelaine Arrighi De Casanova, aunt of Jean-Thomas Arrighi de Casanova duke of Padua. He was therefore related to the Bonapartes. His godparents were General Gaffori and his wife. In 1814, he married Louise Claire Dard d'Espinay, daughter of Empire general Louis Gaspard Dard d'Espinay and Adrienne Sophie van Maneil from Groningen in the Netherlands, from whom he descended. He was created a baron by King Jérôme. Near Corte, you can see the small castle he had built in a park at Minesteggio.

He was the father of Louis-Thomas Mariani, second "Baron Mariani", born in Corte on August 8, 1815 and died in Paris on June 24, 1890. He was a French soldier and politician. His family was influential in central Corsica, where he was a deputy to the Corps législatif (1857-1863), a Corsican general councillor and sub-prefect of Corte from 1863 to 1870. He was promoted to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honor on December 20, 1852.