- Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte (
11 October 1815 -7 April 1881 ) was born inRome ,Italy , the son ofLucien Bonaparte and his second wifeAlexandrine de Bleschamp .He was a nephew of
Joseph Bonaparte ,Napoleon I of France ,Elisa Bonaparte ,Louis Bonaparte ,Pauline Bonaparte ,Caroline Bonaparte andJérôme Bonaparte .Career
He began his life of adventure at the age of fifteen, joining the insurrectionary bands in the
Romagna (1830 . errs. 1831); was then in theUnited States , where he went to join his uncle Joseph, and inColombia withFrancisco de Paula Santander (1832). Returning to Rome he was taken prisoner by order ofPope Gregory XVI (1835-1836). He finally took refuge in the 250pxAt the
revolution of 1848 he returned to France and was elected deputy forCorsica to theConstituent Assembly . He declared himself an out-and-out republican and voted even with thesocialist s. He pronounced himself in favour of the national workshops and against the loi Falloux. His attitude contributed greatly to give popular confidence to his cousin Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III of France ), of whose coup d'état on2 December ,1851 he disapproved; but he was soon reconciled to the emperor, and accepted the title of prince. The republicans at once abandoned him.From that time on he led a debauched life, and lost all political importance. He turned to literature and published some mediocre poems. In January 1870 a violent incident brought him again into prominence. As the result of a controversy with
Paschal Grousset , the latter sent him two journalists as witnesses to set the terms of a duel. Pierre Bonaparte took them personally to account, and during a violent discussion he drew his revolver and killed one of them,Victor Noir . This crime greatly excited the republican press, which demanded his trial. The High Court acquitted him, and criticism then fell upon the government.Pierre Bonaparte died in obscurity at
Versailles . He is interred in theCimetière des Gonards inVersailles .Children
On
22 March ,1853 , Pierre married the daughter of a Paris working-man, Justine Eleanore Ruflin, by whom he had two children:
*Roland Napoleon Bonaparte (19 May ,1858 -14 April ,1924 ). He entered theFrench Army , was excluded from it in 1886, and then devoted himself to geography and scientific explorations. He was father toMarie Bonaparte .
*Jeanne Bonaparte (25 September ,1861 -23 July ,1910 ). MarriedChristian, Marquis de Villeneuve-Esclapon .External links
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References
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