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- Napoleon I was Louis Napoleon's paternal uncle, and one of his cousins was the disputed Napoleon II.
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Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. He was born in Paris as the son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (r. 1806–1810), and Hortense de Beauharnais. Napoleon I was Louis Napoleon's paternal uncle, and one of his cousins was the disputed Napoleon II.
- Napoleon III of France: Fast Facts
- Summary
- Napoleon III’s Connection to Napoleon I
- Napoleon III’s Maternal Grandparents During The Reign of Terror
- Line of Succession
- Time in Exile
- Time in Italy and Activities with The Carbonari
- Time in The Swiss Army
- Napoleon III’s First and Second Attempts at Seizing Power in France
- Time as A Prisoner in Fort of Ham in Northern France
Born: Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Date of birth: April 20, 1808 Place of birth: Ajaccio, France Died: 1873 Place of death: Chislehurst, Kent, England Aged: 65 Father: Louis Bonaparte Mother: Hortense de Beauharnais Siblings: Napoleon Charles Bonaparte (1802-1807), Napoléon-Louis Bonaparte (1804 – 1831) Maternal grandmother: Joséphine Bonaparte...
Napoleon III, a nephew of famous French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, was the democratically elected president of the Second Republic of France from 1850 to 1852. Prevented by the French constitution at the time from seeking reelection, he used his popular support to completely seize power and make himself emperor of France, i.e. the Second French Em...
A number of years into his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I, Emperor of the French) had grown very worried about his heirless situation. His wife, Joséphine Bonaparte (1763-1814), had failed to produce any child for him. It must be pointed out that the Emperor did have many illegitimate children by many of his mistresses. Joseph...
His maternal grandparents were Joséphine de Beauharnais (later Empress Josephine Bonaparte) and Alexandre de Beauharnais (1760-1794). Both of them suffered immensely during the Reign of Terror (1793-1794), a chaotic and bloody period during the French Revolution that ushered in the First French Republic. Charged with the crime of treason, Alexandre...
In terms of the line of succession, Charles-Louis Napoleon was behind his cousin Napoleon II (also known as the Duke of Reichstadt), his uncle Joseph Bonaparte (1768-1844) and his father Louis Bonaparte (1778-1846). In 1832, Louis-Napoleon, the Duke of Reichstadt and Napoleon I’s only legitimate son, died. This meant that Louis claim to the French ...
Following Napoleon I’s bitter loss at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, many of his family members were exiled out of Paris, France. After Napoleon I’s defeat at Waterloo in 1815, many of the Bonaparte family members went into exile, including his mother was initially sent to the Russian Empire. He and his mother would then move to Switzerland and th...
While in Italy, he and his older brother Napoleon-Louis got themselves involved in revolutionary activities of the Carbonari, an organization that resolutely fought against Austria’s hold in Northern Italy. In 1831, the brothers fled Italy as Austria had begun an operation to rid the area off groups like the Carbonari, the Filadelfia, and the Adelf...
When news broke out of the presence of Louis and his mother’s stay in France, the French king panicked and evicted them from France. Louis and his mother across the English Channel into Britain before making their way back to Switzerland, where he joined the Swiss Army as an officer. It was during this time that he took to writing his political pam...
Believing that the destiny of France was put into his hands by providence, Napoleon was willing to do whatever it took to gain what he believed was his birthright – the emperorship of France. The young man had grown up hearing stories from his mother and tutors about how his uncle Napoleon I was brave and charismatic. Therefore he reasoned that he ...
Following his disastrous second attempt at seizing power in France, Louis Napoleon was described by the French authorities as a crazed man who deserved to be sent to a psychiatric facility. And so Louis Napoleon was imprisoned in the fortress of Ham in Northern France. During his time behind bars, he fathered two children with a local laundress cal...
Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. He was born in Paris as the son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (r. 1806–1810), and Hortense de Beauharnais. Napoleon I was Louis Napoleon's paternal uncle, and one of his cousins was the disputed Napoleon II.
Since neither Louis-Napoleon’s father, Louis, nor his uncle, Joseph, were interested in taking the title, Louis-Napoleon became the heir to the Imperial Crown. Over the ensuing years, he twice tried to seize power by force but was unsuccessful both the times.
In July 1832, the son of Napoleon I and the Empress Maria-Louise died in Austria, the mother’s homeland, where the child had been brought up since 1814. Since neither Louis-Napoleon’s father, Louis, nor his uncle, Joseph, wanted to take the title, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte became the heir to the Imperial crown.
Although two of Joseph's daughters married in exile, when the Bonaparte dynasty was restored by the 1851 French coup d'état in France in December 1851, the man who soon became emperor as Napoleon III was the only living, legally legitimate son of Louis Bonaparte, former King of Holland.
Youth in exile. He was the third son of Napoleon I’s brother Louis Bonaparte, who was king of Holland from 1806 to 1810, and his wife, Hortense de Beauharnais Bonaparte, stepdaughter of Napoleon I. Louis-Napoléon’s childhood and youth were spent largely in exile.
