NapolÃ©on Louis Bonaparte

Napoléon Louis Bonaparte ( born October 11, 1804 in Paris, † March 17 1831 in Forli ) was Grand Duke of Cleves and Berg, King of Holland, son of Louis Bonaparte and Hortense de Beauharnais, and nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Life

At the age of four years Napoléon Louis Bonaparte was employed by his uncle Napoleon by decree of 3 March 1809, Grand Duke of Cleves and Berg. Formally, he enlisted as a Fünfjahriger his father in his resignation on 1 July 1810 Sovereign of the Kingdom of Holland after he was until the French annexation of Holland on July 9, or until his resignation on July 13, 1810 King Lodewijk II.

After the Battle of Leipzig, he lost on December 1, 1813 the title of Grand Duke.

In 1815, after the Battle of Waterloo and the restoration of the House of Bourbon, he went into exile. On November 10, 1826, he married his cousin Charlotte Napoleone Bonaparte ( 1802-1839 ) in Florence. They remained without issue.

Napoléon Louis participated in 1830 with his younger brother Charles Louis, the future emperor Napoleon III. , In an unsuccessful conspiracy of the Carbonari of Romagna. In 1831 he died at Forli to the measles. He was later buried his father in Saint -Leu- la -Forêt.

The hope of a restoration of the rule by the Bonapartes, he had never given up. This was actually achieved in 1852 by the proclamation of his younger brother Charles Louis Emperor of the French.