House of Bonaparte
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The House of Bonaparte is a former imperial and royal European dynasty of French Corsican origin. It was founded in 1804 by Napoleon I, the son of French Corsican nobleman Carlo Buonaparte and noblewo
"The Four Napoleons", 1858 propaganda image depicting Napoleon I, Napoleon II, Napoleon III, and Louis-Napoléon
Napoleon II - Napoleon I's only legitimate child
Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Napoleon I's unacknowledged son
Jérôme Bonaparte, founder of the surviving legitimate Bonapartist line of succession
Napoleon III
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Napoleon III was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first elected president, second emperor, and the last
House of Bonaparte
…his stepson Eugène de Beauharnais. Between 1852 and 1870, there was a Second French Empire, when a member of the Bonaparte dynasty again ruled France: Napoleon III, the youngest son of Louis Bonaparte. However, during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, the dynasty was again ousted from the Imperial Throne. Since…
The lakeside house at Arenenberg, Switzerland, where Louis Napoleon spent much of his youth and exile
Etching portrait of Louis Napoleon at the time of his failed coup in 1836
Louis Napoleon launching his failed coup in Strasbourg in 1836