Biography of napoleon iii

Napoleon III was born in Paris on 20 April 1808. Named Charles Louis Napoleon, he was the third son of Louis Bonaparte (the third brother of Napoleon) and of Hortense de Beauharnais (daughter of Empress Josephine by her first marriage).

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His parents’ arranged marriage was not very happy, and his father Louis, king of Holland from 1806 to 1810, lived mostly separately from his wife and their sons Napoleon-Charles (born in 1802, died in 1807) Napoleon-Louis (born in 1804, died in 1831) and Charles Louis Napoleon (who was known simply as Louis-Napoleon).

After the fall of the First Empire in 1815, the Bonapartes were obliged to leave France.

Queen Hortense chose to live in Switzerland, in Château d’Arenenberg, from 1817 to 1826 and then in Rome in Italy. She inculcated her son Louis-Napoleon with the spirit of the Empire and respect for the dynasty that Napoleon has established: she must have thought: ‘Who knows? Maybe the Bo Napoleon III - New World Encyclopedia QAZOP