Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte
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Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul, Prince Napoleon (Trieste, Italy, September 9 1822 – March 17 1891, Rome, Italy) was the son of Jerome Bonaparte and Catharina of Württemberg.
Known as Prince Napoleon or "Plon-Plon", he was a close advisor to his cousin, Napoleon III, and in particular was seen as a leading advocate of French intervention in Italy on behalf of Camillo di Cavour and the Italian nationalists. His curious nickname is said to be a corruption of "Craint-Plomb", "Fear-Lead", said to have been given to him by the army due to his absence from the Battle of Solferino.
As part of his cousin's policy of alliance with Piedmont-Sardinia, in 1859 Prince Napoleon married Clotilde, daughter of Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia. When Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial died in 1879, Prince Napoleon became the genealogically most senior member of the Bonaparte family, but the Prince Imperial's will excluded him from the succession, nominating Prince Napoleon's son Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric Bonaparte as the new head of the family. As a result Prince Napoleon and his son quarrelled for the remainder of Prince Napoleon's life.
His grandson Louis Bonaparte (Brussels, 1914–1997) was a pretender of Bonaparte dynasty as his son prince Charles Marie Jérôme Victor (born 1950) representing the current head of the family. This Charles Napoleon has a son Jean-Christophe (born 1986) and a brother Jérôme (born 1957), unmarried. There are no remaining legitimate descendants in male line from any other of Napoleon's brothers. There is, however, a substantial number of illegitimate descendants of Napoleon I himself, scions of his son Count Colonna-Walewski of his union with Marie, Countess Walewski.
References
- [In the Courts of Memory], by Lillie de Hegermann-Lindencrone, relates the story of the origin of his nickname, with the warning; Sé non è vero è ben trovato.
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