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Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846) was a younger brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a monarch in his own right from 1806 to 1810, ruling over the Kingdom of Holland (a French client state roughly corresponding to the modern-day Netherlands ).
Aug 29, 2024 · Louis Bonaparte (born September 2, 1778, Ajaccio, Corsica—died July 25, 1846, Livorno, Italy) was a French soldier and Napoleon I’s third surviving brother. As king of Holland (1806–10), he guarded the welfare of his subjects.
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Louis Bonaparte (born March 16, 1856, Paris—died June 1, 1879, near Ulundi, Zululand) was a French prince imperial, the only son of Napoleon III by Empress Eugénie. He was a delicate boy, but when the Franco-German War of 1870 broke out his mother sent him to the army.
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Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.
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Napoleon III, generally known as "Louis Napoléon" before he became emperor, was the son of Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoléon. His mother was Hortense de Beauharnais, the daughter by the first marriage of Napoleon's wife Josephine de Beauharnais. Louis-Napoléon was a second son and a replacement child. His older brother, Napoléon Charles Bonapart...
In 1848, he was elected President of France in a land slide victory. He won the election because of his popular name and French people hoped that he would return his uncle's glory. He used his rank as stepping stone to greater power. Finally in 1852, he crowned himself as Emperor Napoleon III and the Second French Empire was born. In 1856, Eugenie ...
Napoleon spent the last few years of his life in exile in England, with Eugenie and their only son. The family lived at Camden Place Chislehurst (then in Kent), where he died on 9 January 1873. He was haunted to the end by bitter regrets and by painful memories of the battle at which he lost everything. Napoleon was originally buried at St. Mary's,...
An important legacy of Napoleon III's reign was the rebuilding of Paris under the supervision of Georges-Eugène Haussmann. One purpose was reduce the ability of future revolutionaries to challenge the government by blocking the small, medieval streets of Paris with barricades. However, the main reason for the complete transformation of Paris was Na...
20 April 1808 – 9 July 1810: His Imperial and Royal HighnessLouis Napoléon Bonaparte, Prince of Holland20 April 1808 – 25 July 1846: His Imperial HighnessLouis Napoléon Bonaparte, Prince Imperial of France20 December 1848 – 2 December 1852: His Excellency Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, President of the French Republic ("fr: Le Prince-President")2 December 1852 – 4 September 1870: His Imperial Majestythe Emperor of the FrenchJun 27, 2018 · Bonaparte, Louis (1778–1846) King of Holland (1806–10), brother of Napoleon I and father of Napoleon III. He accompanied his brother in the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, became a general (1804) and governor of Paris (1805).
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte’s (1778-1846), exclamation ‘Iek ben Konijn van Olland’ (I am Rabbit of Holland) in poor Dutch is legendary. He meant to say ‘King of Holland’, which he was from 1806 to 1810.
