NAPOLEON, or, in full, Narof,Pox JOSEPH Ctrant.Es PAUL 130NAPAUTE, is the son of Jerome, king of Westphalia, and was b. at Trieste in 1822. When the insurrection broke out in the Romagna in 1831, he was staying in Rome with his grandmother, Mine. Letitia Bonaparte, but was forced to leave the city for Florence on account of Iris cousins (see Louis Naromiox) implicated in the revolutionary disturbances. He was educated at a boarding-school in Geneva, and at the military school of Ludwigs burg, in Wnrtemberg, completing his studies in 1840, after which lie traveled for five years in Germany, England, and Spain. In 1845 he obtained permission to visit Paris under the name of the comte de Montfort; but his relations with the democratic party and his advanced political opinions rendered bhp suspected by the government, who ordered him to quit the country. lie, however, again made his appearance on the eve of the revolution of Feb., 1848. After the fall of Louis-Philippe he offered his services to the provisional government, and was elected by the Corsicans a member of the con stituent assembly, where lie voted with the moderate republicans. He held for a short time, in 1849, the office of minister-plenipotentiary at Madrid. After the coup (Petal he withdrew into private life; but on the restoration of the empire he reappeared to share in the honors that now fell thickly on his family. By a decree of the senate. Dec. 23, 1853, he was pronounced a French prince, with the right to a place in the senate and the council of state; at the same time lie received the imsignia of the-, and cross of the legion of honoi, he had not rank of gen. of division. In the
Crimean war he commanded a division of infantry reserves at the battles of Alma and Inkerman, but soon after returned to France, on the plea of ill-health. Napoleon WAS president of the imperial commission of the Paris exhibition in 1855. In 1858 he was appointed head of the ministry for Algiers and the colonies, but held the °like only for a short time. During the sante year he married the princess Clotilde, daughter of Victor Emmanuel, and in the Italian war of 1859 commanded the French army of reserve in the south of Italy, but was not engaged in actual hostility. In 1801 he made a speech in the senate reflecting on the Orleans family, for which be was challenged by the due d'Aumale. The challenge was not accepted, much to the disgust of the French Napoleon was president of the French commission at the London exhibition of 1862. In 1805 he resigned several public appointments, owing to a reprimand from the emperor about a speech. Afterwards, however, he was intrusted with many delicate missions, and urged the emperor to a liberal policy. In 1870 he was returned to the French assembly for Corsica, but in the election of 1877 was rejected. The death of the prince imperial in Zululand in 1879 gave Napoleon and his sons a more prominent position in the Bonaparte family.