page_title: Napoleon II of France
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Napoleon II of France / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Maude Adams as Napoleon II in L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand
context_page_description: Napoléon François Charles Joseph Bonaparte was the son of Napoleon and Marie Louise of Austria.
context_section_description: Napoleon II was also known as "The Eaglet" (L'Aiglon). Edmond Rostand wrote a play, L'Aiglon, about his life.
  Serbian composer Petar Stojanović composed an operetta about him in the 1920s.
  Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert worked together on an opera, L'Aiglon, which premiered in 1937.
  The journalist Henri Rochefort joked that Napoleon II, having never really governed, was France's best leader, since he brought no war, taxes or tyranny.
caption: Maude Adams as Napoleon II in L'Aiglon
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