The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04
THE BONAPARTES.
GenealOgy of the House of Napoleon.
Surviving Members of the Family.
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The death of the titular Prince I'm
perial of France and the attention nat
urally directed to the Prince who thus
becomes the head of the NapOleonic
mary review of the Bonaparte geneal-
ogy. Napoleon Bonaparte had four
brothers and three sisters, who may be
named in the order of their birth. as
follows:
1. Joseph, born 1868, died 1s44. He
was made King of Naples and after
Ward King of Spain, and on the fall of
the empire came to the United States,
under the name of Count de Survilliers,
and lived for a long time at Borden
town. He married Mile. Clary, by
whom he had two daughters, Zenaide,
married to her cousin, the Prince of
Canine, and who died in 1854, and
Charlotte, married to Napoleon Louis,
the brother of the late Emperor. She
died in 1889.
1775, died 1910. He opposed the EN-
peror's plans If conquest, refused a
crown and devoted himself to literary
and archaeological pursuits, for which
reason the Emperor excluded him
from the succession, though he was
most devoted to Napoleon after his
fall and to the claims of Napoleon II.
His first wife was Christine Boyer, an
inu-keeper's daughter, who bore him
two children, Charlotte, who was mar
ried to Prince Mario Gabrielli and af-
terward to DR.. Centamori, and died in
1865; and Christine, who was the wife
successfully of the Swedish Count
Posse and of Lord Dudley Coutts
Stuart, and died in 1s47. BY his sec-
ond wife, Marie de Bleschamp, Lucien
had four daughters and four sons.
Jeanne was married to Count Honorati;
Marie to Count Valentini; Constance
became Abbess of the Convent of the
Sacred Heart at Rome, and Loetitia
was married to Sir Thomas Wyse.
The sons were:
a. Charles Lucien, Prince of Canino,
born 1903, died 1857. He married his
cousin Zenaide, daughter of Joseph,
and Joined his father-in-law in Amer
ica, where he gained great reputation
as naturalist. It was he who COM
pleted Wilson's ornithology. In later
life he was director of the Jardin des
Plantes, at Paris. He had three sons,
Joseph Lucien, who was born in Phil
adelphia in 1924 and died in Rome in
1865; Lucien Louis, born in Rome in
1928, ordained priest in 1858 and
made a cardinal by Plus TX in 1868,
The five daughtres of Charles Lucien
became the wives of the Marquis Roc
cagiovine, Count Primoli, Count Cam
pello and Prince Placido Gabrielli.
b. Louis Lucien, born in England in
1918. He has devoted himself to phil
ology, and is chiefly known by his
studies in English and French dia-
lects.
c. Pierre Napoleon, born in Rome in
1915, wild lad, who wandered all over
the world end was in quarrels every
where. He served with Santander in
South America; fought with policemen
in Italy; was tried for murder in Paris;
twice fled for refuge to the United
States, and finally settled down in
London, where his wife opened a mill
linery shop under her Princely title.
Il. Antoine, born in 1916. Spent his
early life in Italy. Was a member of
the Assembly from 1s49 to 1851, when
he retired from politics. He was one
of the family who kept aloof from his
cousin, the Emperor.
3. Marie Anne Elisa, born 1777, died
1920. Married to Bacceochi, a Corsican
officer, in 1897. Removed to Paris and
was made Princess of Piombino and
Lucca and Grand Duchess of Tuscany.
Their daughter, Napoleone Elisa, born
1906, married Count Camerata, and
was prominent person for many
years. She died i'll 1869, leaving her
fortune to the late Prince Imperial.
They had also two sons, the eldest of
whom, Count Felice Bacchioch, trans
mitted his title and estates to his son
OF the same name, who was the friend
and first chamberlain of Napoleon III,
and died in 1866.
4. Louis, born 177S, died 1916. Mar
ried Hortense Beauharnais, J Joscphinc's
daughter. Made King of Holland in
1906. Though he was continually quar-
reling with the Emperor, the latter, in
his will, gave precedence to his chill
dren over those Of Joseph and Lucien
in the right of succession. There were
two sons:
a. Napoleon Louis, born 1904, died
1881. His father abdicated in his favor
in 1910, and after the overthrow of the
Emperor the father and son lived to-
gether in Florence until the latter's
death.
b. Louis Napoleon, born 1908, died
1878. It is we'll known that the pater-
nifty of the late Emperor was question
cd, but as Louis officially acknowl-
| edged it, the matter need not be dis
cussed here. Napoleon Ill married
! Eugene Marie de Montijo in 1858, and