biography
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Bonaparte, Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul
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pronunciation:
[bohnapah(r)t]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1822–91)
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| biography:
| French politican, born in Trieste, NE Italy, the son of Jérôme Bonaparte and nephew of Napoleon I. He entered military service in Württemberg in 1837, and was expelled from France in 1845 for republicanism. In 1848, having taken the name Jérôme on his elder brother's death, he was elected to the National Assembly. In 1851 he was named as the successor to Napoleon III. In 1859 he married the Princess Clotilda, daughter of Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia. After the fall of the empire he took up residence in England, but returned to France in 1872 and sat in the Chamber of Deputies. In 1886, as pretender to the throne, he was exiled from France. |
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