Joseph Bonaparte
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Joseph Bonaparte, regnal name José I, was a French statesman, lawyer, diplomat and older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1806, Napoleon made him King of Naples, and then King of Spain and the Indies
Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte (1808)
Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples by Jean-Baptiste Wicar
Julie Clary, Queen of Naples, with her daughter Zenaïde Bonaparte in 1807, by Robert Lefèvre
Portrait by Joseph Flaugier, c. 1809
Napoleon II
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Napoleon II was the disputed Emperor of the French for 2 weeks in 1815. He was the son of Emperor Napoleon I and Empress Marie Louise, daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria.
Joseph Bonaparte
…that was defeated at the Battle of Paris. He was seen by some Bonapartists as the rightful Emperor of the French after the death of Napoleon's own son Napoleon II in 1832, although he did little to advance his claim. Bonaparte travelled to the United States onboard the Commerce under the name of M. Bouchard…
Empress Marie Louise and her son Napoleon, King of Rome, by François Gérard, 1813
Portrait of Napoleon II by Thomas Lawrence, 1819
Deathbed portrait, engraved by Franz Xaver Stöber