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  Napoleon I - LoveToKnow 1911
Napoleon Bonaparte (or Buonaparte, as he almost always spelt the name down the year 1796) was born at Ajaccio in Corsica on the i 5th of August 1769.
Napoleon's ideas on the education of girls may be judged by this extract from his speech at the Council of State on the 1st of March 1806: "I do not think that we need trouble ourselves with any plan of instruction for young females: they cannot be better brought up than by their mothers.
Napoleon was surprised by the news of Prussia's mobilization; he had come to regard her as a negligible quantity, and now he found that her unexpected sensitiveness on points of honour was about to revivify the Third Coalition against France.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Napoleon_I   (17454 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Napoleon III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Napoleon then dreamed of settling the affairs of Italy by means of a congress, and Arthur de la Guéronniére's pamphlet, "Le pape et le congrés", demanded of Pius IX, in advance, the surrender of his temporal power.
Napoleon III was annoyed, and ordered his ambassador at Rome to enter into negotiations for the withdrawal of the French troops: on 11 May, 1860, it was decided that within three months the soldiers given to the pope by Napoleon III should return to France.
This arrangement caused profound sorrow at the Vatican; Pius IX drew the conclusion that Napoleon was preparing to leave the States of the Church at the mercy of the Italians.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10699a.htm   (3543 words)

  
 Bonaparte. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Napoleon’s father, Carlo Buonaparte, 1746–85, a petty Corsican nobleman, was a lawyer in Ajaccio.
Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jérôme, 1784–1860, served in the navy and was sent to the West Indies.
Prince Napoleon became a pretender to the throne after the death of the only son of Napoleon III, Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte, 1856–79, the Prince Imperial, who was killed while fighting the Zulus as a member of the British army.
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 Napoleonic Titles and Heraldry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Princes were forbidden from marrying without prior consent, on pain of losing their succession rights and excluding their issue; but if the marriage ended without children, the prince would recover his rights.
It was composed of (1) the princes apt to succeed as defined by the Constitution, their spouses and their descendance in legitimate marriage, (2) the sisters of Napoléon, their spouses and their descendants in legitimate marriage to the 5th generation included, (3) the adopted children of the Emperor and their legitimate descent.
The Prince Eugène was adopted on 12 Jan, 1806 with no rights to the French succession, but he was given presumptive rights to the throne of Italy in the absence of a second son of Napoleon on February 16, 1806, and given the title of Prince of Venice on December 20, 1807.
www.heraldica.org /topics/france/napoleon.htm   (6120 words)

  
 Columbia Encyclopedia- Napoleon III - AOL Research & Learn
The nephew of Napoleon I, Louis Napoleon spent his youth with his mother, Hortense de Beauharnais, in Switzerland and Germany and became a captain in the Swiss army.
Less fortunate was Napoleon's intervention (1861–67) in the affairs of Mexico; the French troops finally withdrew upon the demand of the United States, leaving Emperor Maximilian to his fate.
To regain prestige Napoleon, at the behest of advisers, took an aggressive stand regarding the candidature of a Hohenzollern prince to the Spanish throne.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon declared that he would have no conditions dictated to him; at the same time he promised to give new proofs of his respect and love for religion, and to listen to what the pope might have to submit.
Napoleon wrote to Champagny that it was necessary "to accustom the people of Rome and the French troops to live side by side, so that, should the Court of Rome continue to act in an insensate way, it might insensibly cease to exist as a temporal power, without anyone noticing the change".
Napoleon first wreaked his irritation on the Bishops of Ghent, Tournai, and Troyes, whom he forced to resign their sees and caused to be deported to various towns, then, on 3 December, he declared the Brief unacceptable, and charged the prelates to ask for another.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10687a.htm   (11568 words)

  
 Macdonald And Prince Eugene, The Battle Of The Piave, 1809
Napoleon believed the main campaign would be fought in Germany and any setback in Italy would be of secondary importance, and Macdonald would not question the great man's instincts.
Returning to Eugene's position on the 27th, he had concentrated the remainder of his main body, that is the divisions not sent beyond the Adige, around Caldiero, with his right at Arcola and his left to the north at Illasi and Cazzano.
Arnold, Napoleon Conquers Austria, 100; Sorbier had been an artillerist since 1782 and was destined to command the Imperial Guard reserve artillery at Smolensk and Borodino during the 1812 campaign in Russia.
www.napoleon-series.org /research/biographies/c_piave.html   (6871 words)

  
 NapoleonGames.com: Games by Operational Studies Group.
While Napoleon saw too little cooperation from the Tsar in his embargo of British goods, for his part the Tsar could claim that he was observing his Tilsit undertakings, even to the detriment of his nation's merchant class and the value of the ruble, which was in crisis.
When Napoleon chose to tighten the continental blockade by annexing Holland and the German states of Hannover and Oldenburg, he further insulted the Tsar by confiscating the lands of the Tsar's new brother-in-law.
Napoleon was bound to stay in Moscow as long as there was even a glimmer of hope that he might, after all, find some sort of accommodation that would make it possible for him to come away from this misadventure with no more than a fl eye.
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 Battle of Borodino, 1812.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
According to Adam Zamojski Napoleon was determined to hold the possibility of the reunification of the Kingdom of Poland as a carrot before the Poles, a semi-sincere promise to ensure loyalty.
Eugene was honest, brave, loyal and generous man. In 1812 his IV Corps was known as Army of Italy.
Napoleon was unsure of the situation on the smoke-obscured battlefield.
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 joshua a. norton - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
Norton was magnanimous enough to grant an "Imperial Pardon" to the errant young police officer who had committed the (perceived) act of treason.
One popular story suggested that he was actually the son of Emperor Louis Napoleon and that his claims of coming from South Africa were simply a ruse to prevent persecution.
(To have been an illegitimate son of Louis Napoleon, he would have had to have been conceived when the French Emperor was only three; Louis Napoleon's actual son, Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial, died fighting in the Boer War in 1879.) Another popular story suggested that the Emperor was planning to marry Queen Victoria.
www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/joshua-a.-norton   (3736 words)

  
 Eugène de Beauharnais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Correspondingly, the decree of March 30, 1806 which sets down rules for the imperial family distinguishes between dynasts (as defined by the constitution), sisters of Napoléon and their descent, and adopted children of Napoléon and their descent.
The Confederation disintegrated in the wake of Napleon's defeats, particularly the battle of Leipzig on Oct. 16, 18 and 19, 1813.
After his death their surviving children were granted the title of Princes and Princesses Romanovsky, with rank equal to that of great-great-grandchildren of the Russian Emperor (1857); but they were never truly members of the Imperial family as defined in the Russian house laws.
www.heraldica.org /topics/france/eugene.htm   (2773 words)

  
 boys clothing: European royalty--The Bonapartes
Napoleon Bonepart was born on the island of Corsica on Aug 15, 1769.
Napoleon III himself was released by the Germans in 1871 and joined the Emperess at Chiselhurst, Kent in England where he resided until his death 2 years later.
Eugene Louis was born with the proverbial silver spoon.
histclo.com /royal/fra/royal-frn.htm   (2478 words)

  
 chap29a2
Upon the decease of the Prince, the Grand Duchy was to pass under the authority of Prince Eugene (Napoleon’s step son), Vice-King of Italy, according to the terms of one of the articles of the Treaty.
Napoleon was most concerned about his relationship with the princes of the Confederation of the Rhine.
The prince of Lippe-Schaumbourg is George-William, born on 28 December 1784.
www.napoleonicsociety.com /english/chap29a2.htm   (2374 words)

  
 Napoleon III of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He tried again in August 1840, sailing a ship with some hired soldiers into Boulogne, and this time he was caught and imprisoned (in relative comfort) in the fortress of the town of Ham in the Department of Somme.
In the beginning of the 1860s, the objectives of the Emperor in foreign policy had been met: France had scored several military victories in Europe and abroad, the defeat at Waterloo had been exorcised, and France was regarded again as the largest military power in Europe.
His military adventurism is sometimes considered a fatal blow to the Concert of Europe, which based itself on stability and balance of powers, whereas Napoleon III attempted to rearrange the world map to France's favor even when it involved radical and potentially revolutionary changes in politics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Napoleon_III_of_France   (2575 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
4.0 Background on Empress Eugenia and Her Son the Prince Imperial The primary asteroid, (45) Eugenia is the first asteroid to be named after a human, namely the Empress Eugenie of France, wife of Napoleon Bonaparte III (ruler of France from 1848-1870, and nephew of Napoleon I).
At age 23, in search of adventure, the little prince (he was of small stature and quite thin) enlisted with Chelmsford's army and set off to fight in 1879 with the British in Africa against the Zulus in the battle of Ulundi (the Zulu capital in South Africa).
The "Little Prince", of small stature and thin, was killed by Zulus in South Africa, while on a scouting mission for the British army in 1879.
www.boulder.swri.edu /~merline/petitprince.name.txt   (1085 words)

  
 Marshal Joachim Murat
From then on, his career was tied to Napoleon's, as he became Napoleon's aide-de-camp and friend on the Italian campaign.
Napoleon often complained of Murat's need of women, saying that he needed women like he needed food, and Murat's desire to forego planning, but he held Muart's leadership and combat abilities in high enough regard to give him important commands of cavalry.
As Napoleon attempted his coup d'etat and things did not go as well as planned, some of the members of the Council of 500 began to rough Napoleon up.
www.napoleonic-officers.net /web/officers/M/murat.html   (1162 words)

  
 Culture.fr : Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The doubly tragic history of the imperial dynasty will be the subject of an exhibition at Compiègne château which, under the title La pourpre et l'exil, will follow the destiny of the imperial princes.
The first prince, the Aiglon, was the only son of Napoleon I and the Empress Marie-Louise of Austria — he was the king of Rome and later the Duke of Reichstaedt and he died of an illness in Vienna in 1832 aged 21 years old.
The second imperial prince, Eugène Louis Napoleon, was the son of Napoleon III and the empress Eugénie de Montijo; he was exiled to England with his parents in 1870 and died a hero in Zululand in 1879, aged 23 years old.
www.culture.fr /Groups/musees/article_37_en   (443 words)

  
 Soldiers of the Queen - The Prince Imperial of France
Soldiers of the Queen - The Prince Imperial of France
Catholic Church, Chislehurst is dressed in the patrol uniform of the Royal Artillery - a strange fate for
An oval die-cut photograph of the Prince Imperial
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 Nominations to the Order of Golden Fleece by King Joseph I of Spain
When First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte founded the Legion d’Honneur by decree on 29 floreal an X (19 May 1802) it was designed to replace previous awards of the House of Bourbon such as the Ordre de Saint-Michel (founded in 1469) and the Ordre du Saint-Esprit (founded 1578).
When Napoleon named Joseph King of Spain (after the 1808 abdication of King Carlos IV and his son Ferdinando, Prince of the Asturias) Joseph became sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece [19 September 1808].
[5] The sole remaining 1805 nominee was Prince Eugene de Beauharnais, Napoleon’s former Viceroy of Italy.
www.napoleon-series.org /research/miscellaneous/c_fleece.html   (731 words)

  
 National Portrait Gallery A-Z of Portrait Sitters (I)
Napoleon II (1811-1832), Son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie Louise.
Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial (1856-1879), Son of Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie.
Princess Irene (née Princess Irene of Greece), Duchess of Aosta (1904-1974), Daughter of King Constantine I of Greece; wife of Prince Aimone Savoy, 4th Duke of Aosta.
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 dictionary - Joshua A. Norton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He would frequently give lengthy philosophical expositions on a variety of topics to whomever was in earshot at the time.
In 1865, when Bummer died, Mark Twain was sufficiently moved to write an epitaph for the Imperial Canine, saying that he'd died "full of years, and honor, and disease, and fleas".)
Norton did receive some small tokens of formal recognition for his station; the census of 1870 records a Joshua Norton residing at 624 Commercial St, and lists him with the occupation of "Emperor".
www.medicalrace.com /dictionary/Emperor_Norton   (3824 words)

  
 The Prince Imperial NELJJ Bonaparte - Staff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Prince Imperial was the most celebrated casualty of the war.
His remains were returned to England and his tomb can now be found at Farnborough Abbey, Hampshire.
There is a Prince Imperial Mausoleum at Malmaison, Paris, France and other places named for him including a bridge at Biarritz.
www.1879memorials.com /staff/pimp.html   (260 words)

  
 Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups - What About Sainthood for Napoleon?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
No not the ogre but rather the Prince Imperial, the son of Napoleon III and Eugenie?
He was born into the purple yet died in exile.
I think he would be an excellent example!
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 Costumes Francaise: The Reign of Napoleon
Chief Herald of the Army at Napoleon's Coronation
Splendeur Des Uniformes De Napoleon: Costumes Du Sacre-armes Drapeaux Et Decorations
Civil officer of the Imperial Household at Napoleon's Coronation
www.costumes.org /history/100pages/NAPOLEON.HTM   (142 words)

  
 Snuffbox of First Consul Napoléon Bonapa: Napoleon - An Intimate Portrait
Snuffbox of First Consul Napoléon Bonapa: Napoleon - An Intimate Portrait
Historical Provenance - Josèphine Bonaparte family through Prince Eugène
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 Zulu War Prints:Napoleon eugene louis,prince imperial
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