biography
pronunciation:
[bohnapah(r)t]
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| lived:
| (1784–1860)
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| biography:
| King of Westphalia (1807–13), born in Ajaccio, Corsica, the youngest brother of Napoleon. He served in the navy (1800–2) and lived in New York (1803–5), marrying Elizabeth Patterson (1785–1879) in Baltimore in 1803, a marriage which Napoleon declared null and void. Jérôme was given a high military command by Napoleon in the Prussian campaign of 1806, led an army corps at Wagram in 1809, incurred his brother's displeasure during the invasion of Russia in 1812, but fought with tenacity at Waterloo (1815). After accepting exile in Rome, Florence, and Switzerland, he returned to Paris in 1847. His nephew Napoleon III appointed him governor of the Invalides, and created him a marshal of France. |
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