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The Life of Napoleon III: a timeline for 6 years old +
&#; Birth of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte
The future emperor Napoleon III was born in Paris during the night of 20/21 April. He was given the names Charles-Louis-Napoleon but he very quickly became known as simply Louis-Napoleon. His parents were Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland and brother of Napoleon I, and Hortense de Beauharnais. Charles-Napoleon&#;s uncle was Napoleon I, who reigned over France and a vast European empire.
Painting: Louis-Napoleon sits on the emperor&#;s knee! They are surrounded by the children of Napoleon&#;s other brothers and sisters. (L. Ducis, Napoleon I after lunch, surrounded by the young princes and princesses of his family, on the terrace of château de Saint-Cloud in [detail], Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon © RMN)
&#; Exile in Switzerland
In , Napoleon I was defeated by the English and had to give up power. He was exiled and his family could no longer live in France. Lo
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Napoléon III
Napoléon III (20 April – 9 January ), also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, was the first President of the French Republic and the last monarch of France. Made president by popular vote in , Napoleon III ascended to the throne on 2 December , the forty-eighth anniversary of his uncle, Napoleon I's, coronation. He ruled as Emperor of the French until September , when he was captured in the Franco-Prussian War.
Early life
[change | change source]Napoleon III, generally known as "Louis Napoléon" before he became emperor, was the son of Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoléon. His mother was Hortense de Beauharnais, the daughter by the first marriage of Napoleon's wife Josephine de Beauharnais. Louis-Napoléon was a second son and a replacement child.[1] His older brother, Napoléon Charles Bonaparte, died at age four.[2] During Napoleon I's reign, Louis-Napoléon's parents had been made king and queen of a French puppet state, the Kingdom of Hol
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Life and Reign of Napoleon III
EARLY LIFE AND POLITICAL APPRENTICESHIP
Birth, during the night of the 20 to 21 April, of Charles Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, third son of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, and Hortense dem Beauharnais, 17 rue Cérutti (today Lafitte), Paris.
4 November: The baptism of Louis-Napoleon was celebrated by huvudregel Fesch in the Trinity Chapel of the palace of Fontainebleau.
1 April: Hortense and her son went to Evreux, to the North-East of Paris, to rejoin the Empress Josephine.
11 April: A pension of francs was granted to Hortense, with the title of Duchess of Saint-Leu.
16 April: Josephine, Hortense and her sons returned to Malmaison.
4 April: Napoleon inom abdicated at Fontainebleau and was exiled to the island of Elba.
29 May: The Empress Josephine died at Rueil-Malmaison.
20 March: Napoleon returned to Paris.
18 June: Defeat at Waterloo.
22 June: Napoleon abdicated for the second time.
29 June: Napoleon left Ro