Bonaparte

:This article is about the family of Napoleon Bonaparte. There is also an article on the Argentinian paleontologist, José Bonaparte. For the Olympic medallist, see Bonaparte (horse).

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Napoleon Bonaparte - Argentinian - Paleontologist - José Bonaparte - Bonaparte (horse)

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Of Corsican origin, the Bonaparte (originally Buonaparte) family is the family of Napoleon I, who was elected as first consul of France on November 10, 1799 with the help of his brother, Lucien Bonaparte, president of the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud.

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Corsica - Napoleon I - France - November 10 - 1799 - Lucien Bonaparte - Council of Five Hundred - Saint-Cloud

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Napoleon I was crowned Emperor of France 1804-1814, 1815; the Bonaparte family also provided kings of Spain, Naples, Holland and Westphalia, and a second French Emperor, Napoleon III.

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Emperor - 1804 - 1814 - 1815 - Spain - Naples - Holland - Westphalia - Napoleon III

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The family originally came from Florence. The first Buonaparte to move to Corsica was Francesco Buonaparte, who moved there in the 16th century, when Corsica was a Genoese possession. The arms of the Buonaparte family were: Gules two bends sinister between two stars or. In 1804 Napoleon changed the arms to Azure an imperial eagle or. The change applied to all members of his family except for his brother Lucien, and the son of Jerome's first marriage.

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Florence - Francesco Buonaparte - 16th century - Genoese - 1804

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Following his conquest of most of western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph (1768-1844) king first of Naples and Sicily (1806-1808) and then of Spain (1808-1813), his third brother Louis (1778-1846) king of Holland (1806-1810) (subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte (1784-1860) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany (1807-1813).

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Europe - Joseph - 1768 - 1844 - Naples - Sicily - 1806 - 1808 - Spain - 1813 - Louis - 1778 - 1846 - 1810 - Jérôme Bonaparte - 1784 - 1860 - Westphalia - Germany - 1807

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Napoleon's son Napoleon Joseph (1811-1832) was created king of Rome (1811-1814) and was later styled Napoleon II by loyalists of the dynasty, though he never actually ruled as Emperor. Charles Louis Napoleon (1808-1873), son of Louis Napoleon, was president of France in 1848-1852 and emperor in 1852-1870, reigning as Napoleon III; his son, Eugene Bonaparte (1856-1879), styled the Prince Imperial, died fighting the Zulus in Natal, South Africa. With his death, the family lost much of its remaining political appeal, though claimants continued to assert their right to the imperial title.

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Napoleon Joseph - 1811 - 1832 - Rome - 1814 - 1808 - 1873 - 1848 - 1852 - 1870 - Napoleon III - Eugene Bonaparte - 1856 - 1879 - Prince Imperial - Zulu - Natal - South Africa

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