Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte

Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte ( born October 11, 1815 in Rome, † April 7, 1881 in Versailles ) was a member of the Bonaparte family. He led an eventful life, but politically hardly played a role. When he killed a journalist in 1870, it caused a scandal that shook the regime of the Second Empire.

Life

He was a son of Lucien Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon I, and his wife Alexandrine de Bleschamp. He grew up on the country estate of Canino in the Papal States at about 60 km from Rome. He was taught there by two spiritual tutors. He was impulsive and violent. Early on, he had affairs with women.

After the February Revolution of 1848 he went to France and was elected deputy for a Corsican constituency in the Constituent National Assembly. He sat in Parliament with success for a right of return of the 1816 actually banished from France Bonaparte family.

He gave himself a radical Republican and voted with the extreme Left. He campaigned for the establishment of national workshops and spoke out against increasing rights of the clergy in education. At times, this had to win supporters for the position of President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. Looking at the past Pierres however, the President made ​​sure that Pierre should be in the Foreign Legion serve military service in Algeria. There he behaved well insubordinate and had to be recalled.

The coup d'etat of his cousin in 1851 disapproved of Pierre without him this would have been made public. In 1852 his wife Rose died. He married some time later, the former street girls Justine Ruffin. He had to retreat to Corsica thereupon; officially he was commissioned to take a bandit. He remained in Corsica and had built a house, bought an estate and a hunting ground. Napoleon III. awarded him the title of Prince Imperial. The Republicans turned their backs on him and he lost all political influence. In 1853, Pierre was best man at the wedding of the emperor with Eugénie de Montijo; he signed the necessary papers, without the couple to see or to be invited to the wedding. He returned to Corsica and lived like a country gentleman. He went hunting and had numerous affairs, from which emerged a number of illegitimate children. He also tried his hand as a poet.

In the parliamentary elections of 1863 he played to run with the idea, but Napoleon III. thwarted this and supported a rival candidate. In 1864 he became chairman of the Conseil General de la Corse, but soon left the island. He lived first in Belgium and then in Paris.

In 1870 he had a fight with Paschal Grousset; this involved the honor of the Bonaparte family. Grousset sent two journalists to him, and during the heated debate with those he shot Victor Noir. The circumstances are not entirely clear, perhaps it was self-defense. Pierre was arrested, and the scandal shook the regime. The matter sparked strong reactions in the Republican press. There was a process in Tours, but the court said Pierre -free and recognized self-defense. The scandal intensified the criticism of the government.

After the end of the Second Empire Pierre lost his possessions. Most recently, he lived in modest circumstances and received by some relatives and other people some money. He lived to see how his son Roland, 1880, the daughter of the wealthy owner of the casino in Monte Carlo, François Blanc married. He was buried in Versailles.

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