BONAPARTE, Louts, third brother of the Em peror Napoleon, was born September 2, 1778, and was educated in the artillery school at Chalons, where lie imbibed anti-republican principles. Ris ing from place to place, he was made King of Holland in 1806: lint. in fact, he was never more than a French Governor of Holland, subordinate to the will of his brother. lie endeavored, how ever, to resist sonic of the demands of the Em peror and replied to one requisition by saying that, since he had been placed on the throne of llolland, he had "become a Dutehman." In ISIO his realm was incorporated with the French Em pire. After the restoration of the House of Orange Louis considered himself free from all responsibility, and returned to Paris, January I. 1414, where lie was coldly received by the Emperor. Louis was married, in ISo2, to Hor tense Bea nha rna i s, daughter of General I :(-a r nais (q.v.) and Josephine, afterward. Empress of the French. As this marriage 111,, Wholly a matter of submission to his brother's will, it naturally ended in unhappiness and separation. After living tor some years in Rome—where he separated from his wife—he removed, in 1321i, to Florence, where he lived in retirement.. ( the .escape of his son, Louis Napoleon, from the prison Vo L. I I I.-1s.
of Pam, the ex-King of Holland was removed as en invalid to Leghorn, where he (lied July 15, 1846. Louis Bonaparte wits the writer of several works: Marie, ou les Holla»daises, 1814, a novel, giving some sketches of Dutch manners: Docu ments historiques, etc., .cur lc gourernement de Hollunde, 3 vols. ( London, 1821) ; Histoire du parlement anglais (BIM ; and a critique on de Norvin's Ilistory of Napolcon.—The ami able and accomplished HorrrEN SE EUGENIE BEA U 1 ARNA IS, the adopted daughter of Napoleon, Queen of 'Holland, and Countess Saint Len, was born in Paris. April 10, 1783. After the execution
of her father she lived for some time in humble circumstances. until Napoleon's marriage with Josephine. In obedience to the plans of her stepfather, she rejected her intended husband, General Desaix, and married Louis Bonaparte in 1S02. After the Hundred Days she visited Augs burg and Italy, and then fixed her residence at Arenenberg, a mansion in the Canton of Thurgau, where she lived in retirement, sometimes spend ing a winter in Italy. In 1831, when her two sons had implicated themselves in the Italian insurrection, the Countess traveled in search of them through many dangers, and found the elder deceased, and the younger, afterwards Emperor of the French, ill at a place near Ancona. Re turning with her son to Paris, she was pleasantly received by Louis Philippe and by Casimir Pe rier, but was obliged, in the course of a few weeks, to remove with her son to England. Thence she removed to her country-seat, Arenen berg, where she died, after severe suffering, October 3, 1S37, and was buried near the re mains of her mother, Josephine, at Ruel, near Paris. She was the author of La Heine Hor tense en Italic, en et en A ngleterre, pen dant l'annee 1831, and wrote several excellent songs. She likewise composed some deservedly popular airs, among others the well-known "Par tant pour la Syne, which the second Emperor of the French made a national air. Of herthree sons, the eldest, Napoleon Louis Charles, born IS02, died in childhood, March 5, BK. The second, Louis Napoleon, born 1804. Crown Prince of Hol land, married his cousin Charlotte, daughter of Joseph Bonaparte. and died at Forhi, March 17, 1531. The third, Charles Louis Napoleon, be came Emperor of the French. See _NAPOLEON Ill,