Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-01-05
THE BoNAPARTE FA MILY.
The Limo of Succession.

tuH adopted by the French Senate, re-
establishing the Imperial dynasty, by
which Louis Napoleon is declared Empe
Tor, under the name of Napoleon the
Third, and the Imperial dignity is made
hereditary in the direct and legitimate de-
EcendantS of the new Emperor In 9TH
er words the Napoleon dynasty is resto-
red.
Louis Napoleon being in the forty fifth
year of his age, and still unmarried, the
articles establishing the Empire, provide
for his successor, by declaring that if he
has no male heir, he may adopt the legi-
innate children and descendants in the
male line of the brothers of the Emperor
Napoleon the First. Under these cir
eumstances, it becomes interesting to in
quire as to the living male members of
the Bonapartes, who may hereafter be
entitled to the throne of France. The
right of adoption being vested in Louis
Napoleon, we cannot of course say which
of his relatives he may choose to adopt
or exclude from the right of succession
but the entire list of surviving male Bona
parties, although not very numerous, is
more SO than that of the Bourbon
In the new work entitled "'the Napole-
on Dynasty or, the History of the Bona
parte Family by the Berkeley, Men" we
ind elaborate genealogical statements.
and a list of surviving members of the
Bonaparte family. from which we make
up the following:
Joseph Bonaparte. the older brother of
Napoleon, had no son, but two daughters,
one of whom married her cousin, Charles
Lucien, Prince of Canine.
Tho Of cacoDJ
brother of Napoleon, are
l. Charles Luccn. Prince of Canine,
born at Paris, May 24.h, 1898. He was
President of the Constituent Assembly Of
the Roman Republic ia I84). For ii
number of years he resided in this coun-
try. and is author of Il great work on or
anthology. In 1922 he married hi~ coU-
sin Charlotte. daughter OF Joseph Bona
parte. by whom he has eight cI.ihlren-
three sons and five daughters. The fla
mily reside in Italy.
g. Louis LIciru, son of Lucicn. and
brother of the Prince of Canine, was born
January 4. 1918.
). Pierre Napoleon, another son of Lu-
eien, born September 12, 1915. He was
q member of the late National Assembly
of the French Republic.
The sons of Charles Lucien, Prince OF
Canine are
/. Joseph Lucien, born February,
1924.
2. Lucien Louis, born November.
1898.
3. Napoleon Gregorie. born February
1880.
or the family of Louis, the third bro
ther of Napoleon, the new Emperor,
Louis Napoleon is the only survivor.
Jerome, the only surviving brother of
Napoleon, and the late President of the
French Senate, is now 68 years of age
He was born November Is. 1784.-
While an officer in the French Navy, and
on a visit to the United States, in Dccem-
ber, 1903, he was married to Elizabeth
Patterson. daughter of wealthy mer-
chant in Baltimore. This marriage was
annulled by decree of the Emperor Ma
poIeon, in April. 1905. Their son by
this marriage, Jerome Napoleon Bona
parte, was born in England, in 1904. and
now resides in Baltimore. He inherited
large estate from his grandfather Pat
terson, and married Baltimore lady, by
whom he has two sons, one of whom, Ma
poleon Jerome. lately graduated at
west EOlnLB Is no" Il Lieutenant IN the
U. S. Army. These American Bona
parties, father and son, are gentlemen of
modest department, and void of ambition
on account of their family pretensious.-
But it would not be surprising if future
events should call the young Lieutenant
to the other side of the Atlantic, to take
his share IN the rising fortunes of the fa-
mily.
Since her divorce was proclaimed. bv
the Imperial Government Of France. and
subsequently, obtained by her from the
Legislature of Maryland, Mr.. Jerome Ma
poleon Bonaparte's mother-EIizabeth
Patterson-has lived an unmarried life,
residing with her friends in Maryland, in
the enjoyment of opuleuce and the socie-
ty of a refined and intellectual circle.
Jerome, the elder, after the divorce,
married the daughter of the King of Wur-
temburg, by whom he had two sons and
one daughter. OF the former, one stt-
wives, namely, Napoleon Joseph. born at
Trieste, September 8, 1929. He was a
member of the late National Assembly oi
the French Republic. I'D .-H
The male heirs to the throne of France,
after Louis Napoleon, it appears therefore,
from the foregoing, are
I. Charles Lucien, Prince of Canine
aged 40 years.
e. Louis Lucien. brother. aged An