unless he gave up his wife and child, and was kept under surveillance at Goppingen; finally he was allowed to proceed to Augsburg, and thereafter resided at Trieste, or in Italy or Switzerland. His consort died in 1835. He returned to France in 1847, and after the rise of Louis Napoleon to power, became successively governor of the Invalides, marshal of France and president of the senate. He died on the 24th of June 1860. His children were Jerome Napoleon (see XIV.), Mathilde (see XII.) and Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul (born in 1822); the last was afterwards known as Prince Napoleon (see XI. below) and finally became the heir to the fortunes of the Napoleonic dynasty.
The chief works relating to Jerome Bonaparte are: Baron Albert du Casse, Mémoires et correspondance du roi Jérôme et de la reine Cathérine (7 vols., Paris, 1861–1866) and Les Rois frères de Napoléon (1883); M. M. Kaisenberg, Konig Jerome Napoleon; W. T. R. Saffell, The Bonaparte-Patterson Marriage; August von Schlossberger, Briefwechsel der Konigin Katharina und des Konigs Jerome von Westfalen mit Konig Friedrich von Württemberg (Stuttgart, 1886–1887), supplemented by du Casse in Corresp. inédite de la reine Cathérine de Westphalie (Paris, 1888–1893); A. Martinet, Jérôme Napoléon, roi de Westfalie (Paris, 1902); P. W. Sergeant, The Burlesque Napoleon (1905); F. Masson, Napoléon et sa famille (4 vols., Paris, 1897–1900). (J. Hl. R.)
The fortunes of the Bonaparte family may be further followed under the later biographies of its leading members, mainly descendants of Lucien (II. above) and Jerome (VII. above).
VIII. Charles Lucien Jules Laurent (1803–1857), prince
of Canino, son of Lucien Bonaparte, was a scientist rather than a
politician. He married his cousin, Zénaïde Bonaparte,
daughter of Joseph, in 1822. At the age of twenty-two
Descendants of Lucien:
8. Charles.
he began the publication of an American Ornithology
(4 vols., Philadelphia, 1825–1833), which established
his scientific reputation. A series of other works in zoology
followed: Iconographia della fauna Italica (3 vols., Rome, 1832–1841),
Catalogo metodico degli uccelli europei (1 vol., Bologna, 1842),
Catalogo metodico dei pesci europei (1 vol., Naples, 1845, 4to),
Catalogo metodico dei mammiferi europei (1 vol., Milan, 1845),
Telachorum tabula analytica (Neufchatel, 1838). He was
elected honorary member of the academy of Upsala in 1833, of
that of Berlin in 1843, and correspondent of the Institute of
France in 1844. Towards 1847 he took part in the political
agitation in Italy, and presided over scientific congresses,
notably at Venice, where he declared himself in favour of the
independence of Italy and the expulsion of the Austrians. He
entered the Junto of Rome in 1848 and was elected deputy by
Viterbo to the national assembly. The failure of the revolution
forced him to leave Italy in July 1849. He gained Holland, then
France, where he turned again to science. His principal works were,
Conspectus systematis ornithologiae, mastozologiae, erpetologiae
et amphibologiae, Ichthyologiae (Leiden, 1850), Tableau des
oiseaux-mouches (Paris, 1854), Ornithologie fossile (Paris, 1858).
Eight children survived him: Joseph Lucien Charles Napoleon,
prince of Canino (1824–1865), who died without heirs; Lucien
Louis Joseph Napoleon, born in 1828, who took holy orders in
1853 and became a cardinal in 1868; Julie Charlotte Zénaïde
Pauline Laetitia Désirée Bartholomée, who married the marquis
of Roccagiovine; Charlotte Honorine Josephine, who married
Count Primoli; Marie Désirée Eugénie Josephine Philomène,
who married the count Campello; Auguste Amélie Maximilienne
Jacqueline, who married Count Gabrielli; Napoleon Charles
Grégoire Jacques Philippe, born in 1839, who married the
princess Ruspoli, by whom he had two daughters; and Bathilde
Aloyse Léonie, who married the comte de Cambacérès. The
branch is now extinct.
IX. Louis Lucien (1813–1891), son of Lucien Bonaparte, was born at Thorngrove, Worcestershire, England, on the 4th of January 1813. He passed his youth in England, not going to France until 1848, when, after the revolution, 9. Louis Lucien. he was elected deputy for Corsica on the 28th of November 1848; his election having been invalidated, he was returned as deputy for the Seine in June 1849. He sat in the right of the Legislative Assembly, but had no direct part in the coup d’état of his cousin on the 2nd of December 1851. Napoleon III. named him senator and prince, but he took hardly any part in politics during the Second Empire, and after the proclamation of the Third Republic in 1870 he withdrew to England. There he busied himself with philology, and published notably some works on the Basque language: Grammaire basque, Remarques sur plusieurs assertions concernant la langue basque (1876), Observations sur le basque Fontarabie (1878). He died on the 3rd of November 1891, leaving no children.
X. Pierre Napoleon (1815–1881), son of Lucien Bonaparte, was born at Rome on the 12th of September 1815. He began his life of adventure at the age of fifteen, joining the insurrectionary bands in the Romagna (1830–1831); 10. Pierre. was then in the United States, where he went to join his uncle Joseph, and in Colombia with General Santander (1832). Returning to Rome he was taken prisoner by order of the pope (1835–1836). He finally took refuge in England. At the revolution of 1848 he returned to France and was elected deputy for Corsica to the Constituent Assembly. He declared himself an out-and-out republican and voted even with the socialists. He pronounced himself in favour of the national workshops and against the loi Falloux. His attitude contributed greatly to give popular confidence to his cousin Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III.), of whose coup d’état on the 2nd of December 1851 he disapproved; but he was soon reconciled to the emperor, and accepted the title of prince. The republicans at once abandoned him. From that time on he led a debauched life, and lost all political importance. He turned to literature and published some mediocre poems. In January 1870 a violent incident brought him again into prominence. As the result of a controversy with Paschal Grousset, the latter sent him two journalists to provoke him to a duel. Pierre Bonaparte took them personally to account, and during a violent discussion he drew his revolver and killed one of them, Victor Noir. This crime greatly excited the republican press, which demanded his trial. The High Court acquitted him, and criticism then fell upon the government. Pierre Bonaparte died in obscurity at Versailles on the 7th of April 1881. He had married the daughter of a Paris working-man, Justine Eleanore Ruffin, by whom he had, before his marriage, two children: (1) Roland Napoleon, born on the 19th of May 1858, who entered the army, was excluded from it in 1886, and then devoted himself to geography and scientific explorations; (2) Jeanne, wife of the marquis de Vence.
XI. Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul, commonly known
as Prince Napoleon, or by the sobriquet of “Plon-Plon,”[1]
(1822–1891), was the second son of Jerome Bonaparte,
king of Westphalia, by his wife Catherine, princess
of Württemberg, and was born at Trieste on the
Descendants of Jerome:
11. Prince Napoleon (Plon-Plon).
9th of September 1822. He soon rendered himself
popular by his advanced democratic ideas, which
he expressed on all possible occasions. After the
French revolution of 1848 he was elected to the
National Assembly as a representative of Corsica, and (his elder
brother, Jerome Napoleon Charles, dying in 1847) assumed the
name of Jerome. Notwithstanding his ostensible opposition
to the coup d’état of 1851, he was designated, upon the
establishment of the Empire, as successor to the throne if
Napoleon III. should die childless, and received a liberal
dotation, but was allowed no share in public affairs. Privately he
professed himself the representative of the Napoleonic tradition
in its democratic aspect, and associated mainly with men of
advanced political opinions. At court he represented the Liberal
party against the empress Eugénie. In 1854 he took part in the
Crimean campaign as general of division. His conduct at the
battle of the Alma occasioned imputations upon his personal
courage, but they seem to have been entirely groundless. Returning
to France he undertook the chief direction of the National
Exhibition of 1855, in which he manifested great capacity.
In 1858 he was appointed minister for the Colonies and Algeria,
and his administration aroused great hopes, but his activity
was diverted into a different channel by his sudden marriage
- ↑ Derived, it is supposed, from the nickname “Plomb-plomb,” or “Craint-plomb” (fear-lead), given him by his soldiers in the Crimea.
