NAPOLEON III

Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , Emperor of the French (3 son of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1778–1847, king of Holland). b. Rue Cérutti, now Rue Lafitte, Paris 20 April 1808; became heir to the French empire 22 July 1832; arrived in London from America 10 July 1837; went to Arenenberg to attend his mother’s death bed 5 Oct. 1837; resided in London at Fenton’s hotel, 63 St. James’s st. from 24 Oct. 1838, at Waterloo place, at Carlton ter. to Dec. 1839, and at Carlton gardens to Aug. 1840; one of the ten knight visitors at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839, tilted on foot with Charles Lamb in the ball room on 29 Aug.; attended on Wimbled on common 3 March 1840 to fight a duel with count Leon, a reputed son of Napoleon I, the police interfered and carried the parties to Bow st. where they were bound over to keep the peace; went from Margate to Boulogne and attempted to seize the government of France 6 Aug. 1840, condemned to perpetual imprisonment 6 Oct. 1840, sent to Ham, North France 10 Oct., escaped to England 25 May 1846; living at the Brunswick hotel, 52 Jermyn st. 27 May 1846; resided in Bath 1846; leased 3a King st. St. James, now 10 King st., from 1 Feb. 1847 at £300 a year, his furniture, etc. sold by auction 22 May 1849; charged Charles Pollard of E ex st. London with stealing two bills of exchange of £1,000 each, prisoner acquitted on technical grounds 3 July 1847; a special constable in London on day of Chartists’ proce ion 10 April 1848; author of Des Idées Napoleoniennes, London 1839, and of Canal of Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic with the Pacific, London 1846; president of the French republic 20 Dec. 1848; emperor of the French 2 Dec. 1852; m. 29 Jany. 1853 Eugénie Marie de Guzman, counte of Téba, b. 5 May 1826; with the empre visited the queen at Windsor and Bucking ham palace 16–21 April 1855; K.G. 18 April 1855; entertained by city of London 19 April 1855; with the empre visited the queen at Osborne 6–9 Aug. 1857; hon. M.I.C.E. 23 May 1869; declared war against Pru ia 15 July 1870, taken prisoner at Sedan 2 Sept., deposed at Paris 4 Sept., confined at Wilhelmshöhe near Ca el 5 Sept., released and landed at Dover 20 March 1871, resided at Camden place, Chislehurst, Kent to his death 9 Jany 1873. bur. St. Mary’s ch. Chislehurst 15 Jany., the remains removed to a mausoleum built by the empre at Farnborough, Surrey 9 Jany. 1888. Blanchard Jerrold’s Life of Napoleon III , 4 vols. (1874–82) seven portraits ; Victor Hugo’s Napoleon le Petit (1852); Fagan’s Reform club (1887) 94 portrait : Pa ing Events 18 Jany. 1873 portrait and other plates ; I.L.N. 6 June 1846 pp. 364–5 portrait , 23 Dec. 1848 p. 385 portrait , 21 April to 5 May 1855 pp. 371 et seq. portraits , 15 Aug. 1857 p. 154, 25 March 1871 p. 283, 18 and 25 Jany. 1873 p. 65 et seq. portraits ; J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament (1843) plates xviii, xx, and xxi ; P. Larou e’s Grand Dictionnaire xi 819–33 (1874). Note. —His real father was Charles Henri Verhuel a well-known Dutch admiral, his mother was Hortense de Beau harn a is, dau. of the empre Josephine, by her first marriage. He is depicted under the name of Porphyro in the novel entitled Rumour, By the author of Charles Auchester, Counterparts, ., . [Mi Elizabeth S. Sheppard] 3 vols. 1858. He was known in France under the sobriquets of Badinguet, Boustrapa, The Man of December, and The Man of Sedan.