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Statements consisting only of original research should be removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </div><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Imperial_Coat_of_Arms_of_France_(1804-1815).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Imperial_Coat_of_Arms_of_France_%281804-1815%29.svg/210px-Imperial_Coat_of_Arms_of_France_%281804-1815%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="210" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Imperial_Coat_of_Arms_of_France_%281804-1815%29.svg/315px-Imperial_Coat_of_Arms_of_France_%281804-1815%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Imperial_Coat_of_Arms_of_France_%281804-1815%29.svg/420px-Imperial_Coat_of_Arms_of_France_%281804-1815%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="2229" /></a><figcaption>Coat of arms of the <a href="/wiki/First_French_Empire" title="First French Empire">First French Empire</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>succession to the throne of the French Empire</b> was vested by <a href="/wiki/House_of_Bonaparte" title="House of Bonaparte">Bonapartist</a> emperors in the descendants and selected male relatives of <a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon I</a> (<span style="white-space:nowrap;"><abbr title="reigned">r.</abbr> 1804–1814/15</span>). Following the end of the <a href="/wiki/Second_French_Empire" title="Second French Empire">Second French Empire</a> in 1870, <a href="/wiki/Bonapartism" title="Bonapartism">Bonapartist</a> <a href="/wiki/Pretender" title="Pretender">pretenders</a> descended from Napoleon I's brothers have maintained theoretical claims to the imperial office. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins_of_the_French_Empire">Origins of the French Empire</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Succession_to_the_former_French_throne_(Bonapartist)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins of the French Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The French Empire formally existed during two periods when the head of the French state was a <a href="/wiki/Monarch" title="Monarch">monarch</a> who held the title of <a href="/wiki/Emperor_of_the_French" title="Emperor of the French">Emperor of the French</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/First_French_Empire" title="First French Empire">First French Empire</a> was the regime established by Napoleon I in France. This empire lasted from 1804 to 1814, from the <a href="/wiki/French_Consulate" title="French Consulate">Consulate</a> of the <a href="/wiki/French_First_Republic" title="French First Republic">French First Republic</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Bourbon_Restoration_in_France" title="Bourbon Restoration in France">Bourbon Restoration</a>, and was briefly restored during the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Days" title="Hundred Days">Hundred Days</a> in 1815. </p><p>The Second French Empire was the regime established in France by <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_III" title="Napoleon III">Napoleon III</a> from 1852 to 1870, between the <a href="/wiki/French_Second_Republic" title="French Second Republic">French Second Republic</a> and the <a href="/wiki/French_Third_Republic" title="French Third Republic">French Third Republic</a>. Napoleon III was the third son of <a href="/wiki/Louis_Bonaparte" title="Louis Bonaparte">Louis Bonaparte</a>, a younger brother of Napoleon I, and <a href="/wiki/Hortense_de_Beauharnais" title="Hortense de Beauharnais">Hortense de Beauharnais</a>, the daughter of Napoleon I's wife, <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9phine_de_Beauharnais" title="Joséphine de Beauharnais">Joséphine de Beauharnais</a>, by her first marriage. </p><p>Bonapartism had its followers from 1815 onward among those who never accepted the defeat at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo" title="Battle of Waterloo">Waterloo</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Congress_of_Vienna" title="Congress of Vienna">Congress of Vienna</a>. Napoleon I's death in exile on <a href="/wiki/Saint_Helena" title="Saint Helena">Saint Helena</a> in 1821 only transferred the allegiance of many of his loyalists to other members of the House of Bonaparte. </p><p>After the death in 1832 of Napoleon I's son, known to Bonapartists as <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_II" title="Napoleon II">Napoleon II</a>, Bonapartist hopes rested in several different members of the family. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848" title="Revolutions of 1848">disturbances of 1848</a> gave this group hope. Bonapartists were essential in the election of Napoleon I's nephew Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte as president of the Second Republic. They also gave him crucial political support for the 1852 <i>coup d'état</i>, which overthrew the Republic and paved the way for the proclamation of the Second French Empire the following year, with Napoleon III as emperor. </p><p>In 1870, Napoleon III led France to a disastrous defeat at the hands of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Prussia" title="Kingdom of Prussia">Prussia</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War" title="Franco-Prussian War">Franco-Prussian War</a>, and he subsequently abdicated. </p><p>Following the definite overthrow of the Second Empire, the Third Republic was established. Bonapartism faded from a civic faith and monarchist bloc to an obscure predilection, more akin to a hobby than a practical political philosophy or movement. The death knell for Bonapartism was probably sounded when <a href="/wiki/Louis-Napol%C3%A9on,_Prince_Imperial" title="Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial">Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte</a>, the only son of Napoleon III, was killed in action while serving as a <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> officer in <a href="/wiki/Zulu_Kingdom" title="Zulu Kingdom">Zululand</a> in 1879. Thereafter, Bonapartism ceased to be a political force. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_Napoleonic_law_of_succession">First Napoleonic law of succession</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Succession_to_the_former_French_throne_(Bonapartist)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: First Napoleonic law of succession"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The law of succession that Napoleon I established on becoming emperor in 1804 provided that the imperial throne should pass firstly to Napoleon's own legitimate male descendants through the male line, to the <a href="/wiki/Salic_law" title="Salic law">perpetual exclusion of women</a>. </p><p>It further provided that if Napoleon's own direct line died out, the claim passed first to his older brother <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bonaparte" title="Joseph Bonaparte">Joseph Bonaparte</a> and to his legitimate male descendants through the male line, then to his younger brother Louis and his legitimate male descendants through the male line. His other brothers, <a href="/wiki/Lucien_Bonaparte" title="Lucien Bonaparte">Lucien</a> and <a href="/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Bonaparte" title="Jérôme Bonaparte">Jérôme</a>, and their descendants, were omitted from the succession, even though Lucien was older than Louis, because they had politically defied the emperor, made marriages of which he disapproved, or both. </p><p>Upon the extinction of legitimate natural and adopted male, <a href="/wiki/Patrilineality" title="Patrilineality">agnatic</a> descendants of Napoleon I, and those of two of his brothers, Joseph and Louis, the throne was to be awarded to a man selected by the non-dynastic princely and ducal dignitaries of the empire, as ratified by a <a href="/wiki/Referendum" title="Referendum">plebiscite</a>. </p><p>At the time the law of succession was decreed, Napoleon I had no legitimate sons, and it seemed unlikely that he would have any due to the age of his wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. His eventual response was to have his marriage to Joséphine annulled and to undertake a second marriage with Roman Catholic rites to <a href="/wiki/Marie_Louise,_Duchess_of_Parma" title="Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma">Archduchess Marie Louise</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Francis_II,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor">Emperor Francis I of Austria</a>. Their only child was <a href="/wiki/Napoleon_II" title="Napoleon II">Napoleon, King of Rome</a>, known in exile as "Napoleon II" and as the Duke of Reichstadt. He died unmarried, thereby extinguishing the legitimate descent of Napoleon I. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Second_Napoleonic_law_of_succession">Second Napoleonic law of succession</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Succession_to_the_former_French_throne_(Bonapartist)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Second Napoleonic law of succession"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:King_Jerome_Bonaparte.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/King_Jerome_Bonaparte.jpg/220px-King_Jerome_Bonaparte.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="332" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/King_Jerome_Bonaparte.jpg/330px-King_Jerome_Bonaparte.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/King_Jerome_Bonaparte.jpg/440px-King_Jerome_Bonaparte.jpg 2x" data-file-width="794" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Bonaparte" title="Jérôme Bonaparte">Jérôme Bonaparte</a>, progenitor of the current legitimate line</figcaption></figure> <p>Meanwhile, Napoleon I's older brother, Joseph, recognised upon establishment of the First Empire as first in line to succeed and (after the birth of the King of Rome) as second in line, died on 28 July 1844 without ever having had a legitimate son. Although two of Joseph's daughters married in exile, when the Bonaparte dynasty was restored by the <a href="/wiki/1851_French_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1851 French coup d'état">1851 French coup d'état</a> in France in December 1851, the man who soon became emperor as Napoleon III was the only living, legally legitimate son of Louis Bonaparte, former King of Holland. </p><p>In December 1852, with the imperial crown on his head, Napoleon III, still a bachelor, exercised the authority granted him by a decree in the form of a <i><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9natus-consulte" title="Sénatus-consulte">Sénatus-consulte</a></i> (and confirmed by plebiscite), to enact a new <a href="/wiki/Organic_law" title="Organic law">organic law</a> on the succession (in the event he himself were to leave no legitimate descendants). Napoleon III recognised Napoleon I's last surviving brother, Jérôme, as the <a href="/wiki/Heir_presumptive" title="Heir presumptive">heir presumptive</a>. (During Napoleon I's reign, Jérôme had been one of the Bonaparte brothers who was bypassed in the order of succession, his first marriage having been an elopement with the American commoner <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Patterson_Bonaparte" title="Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte">Elizabeth Patterson</a> over the emperor's objections. The Second Empire, however, empowered the new emperor to choose an heir among any of Napoleon I's nephews.) After Jérôme came Jérôme's male descendants by his second, dynastic marriage to <a href="/wiki/Catharina_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Catharina of Württemberg">Princess Catharina of Württemberg</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ghda_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghda-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Napoleon III, hitherto a bachelor, began to look for a wife to produce a legitimate heir. Most of the royal families of Europe were unwilling to <a href="/wiki/Royal_intermarriage" title="Royal intermarriage">intermarry</a> with the <i>parvenu</i> House of Bonaparte. After several rebuffs, including from <a href="/wiki/Carola_of_Vasa" title="Carola of Vasa">Princess Carola of Sweden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Princess_Adelheid_of_Hohenlohe-Langenburg" title="Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg">Princess Adelaide von Hohenlohe-Langenburg</a>, Napoleon III decided to lower his sights somewhat and marry for love instead, choosing Countess of Teba, <a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A9nie_de_Montijo" title="Eugénie de Montijo">Eugénie de Montijo</a>, a Spanish noblewoman who had been brought up in <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>. </p><p>In 1856, Eugénie gave birth to a legitimate son and heir, Napoléon Eugène Louis, the Prince Imperial who, upon his father's defeat in battle and deposition in September 1870, went into exile. He became the claimant to the throne of the Second Empire when his father died in 1873. Like the King of Rome, the Prince Imperial died unwed and childless. All Bonapartist claimants since 1879 have been descendants of Jérôme Bonaparte in the male line. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_Bonapartist_claimants_to_the_French_throne">List of Bonapartist claimants to the French throne</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Succession_to_the_former_French_throne_(Bonapartist)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: List of Bonapartist claimants to the French throne"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This branch of claimants was established by <b><a href="/wiki/Prince_Napol%C3%A9on-J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Bonaparte" title="Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte">Napoleon Joseph Charles Bonaparte</a></b>,<sup id="cite_ref-ghda_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghda-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> nicknamed <i>Plon-Plon</i>. He was the only legitimate male descendant of Jérôme Bonaparte from his second marriage to Princess Catharina of Württemberg. He married <a href="/wiki/Princess_Maria_Clotilde_of_Savoy" title="Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy">Princess Clothilde of Savoy</a> and died in 1891. His son, <a href="/wiki/Victor,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Victor, Prince Napoléon">Victor, Prince Napoléon</a>, the next claimant, wed <a href="/wiki/Princess_Cl%C3%A9mentine_of_Belgium" title="Princess Clémentine of Belgium">Princess Clémentine of Belgium</a>, and died in 1926.<sup id="cite_ref-ghda_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghda-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was succeeded by his son, <a href="/wiki/Louis,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Louis, Prince Napoléon">Louis Jérôme Bonaparte</a>, husband of <a href="/wiki/Alix,_Princess_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Alix, Princess Napoléon">Alix de Foresta</a>, daughter of Count Albéric de Foresta, who died in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-ghda_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghda-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was succeeded by his son, <a href="/wiki/Charles,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Charles, Prince Napoléon">Charles Marie Jérôme Victor Napoléon Bonaparte</a>. He married, civilly, <a href="/wiki/Princess_B%C3%A9atrice_of_Bourbon-Two_Sicilies" title="Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies">Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies</a>, from whom he was divorced, being subsequently declared excluded as Napoleonic heir in his father's will for divorcing her and remarrying a commoner without paternal permission.<sup id="cite_ref-ghda_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghda-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His <a href="/wiki/Heir_apparent" title="Heir apparent">heir apparent</a> (recognised by some as head of the House of Bonaparte since 1997) is his son, <a href="/wiki/Jean-Christophe,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon">Jean-Christophe Napoléon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ghda_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghda-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are no surviving descendants in the legitimate male line of any of Napoleon's brothers except Jérôme.<sup id="cite_ref-ghda_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghda-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This branch of the House of Bonaparte is recognised by Bonapartists as Napoleon I's dynastic heirs, being excluded from residence in France or service in its military by law, along with the heads of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Orl%C3%A9ans" title="House of Orléans">House of Orléans</a>, between 1883 and 1950. </p><p>The head and dynastic members of the family bear the title of Prince with the name Napoléon (Bonaparte) and the style of <i><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Highness" title="Imperial Highness">Imperial Highness</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-ghda_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ghda-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table style="text-align:center; width:100%" class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:22%;">Claimant </th> <th style="width:105px;">Portrait </th> <th>Birth </th> <th style="width:25%;">Marriages </th> <th style="width:19%;">Death </th> <th>Claim </th></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Napoleon" title="Napoleon">Napoleon I</a></b><br />1814–1815<br />(Emperor of the French, 1804–1814) </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Emperor_Napoleon_in_His_Study_at_the_Tuileries_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Emperor_Napoleon_in_His_Study_at_the_Tuileries_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/100px-Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Emperor_Napoleon_in_His_Study_at_the_Tuileries_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Emperor_Napoleon_in_His_Study_at_the_Tuileries_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/150px-Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Emperor_Napoleon_in_His_Study_at_the_Tuileries_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Emperor_Napoleon_in_His_Study_at_the_Tuileries_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/200px-Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Emperor_Napoleon_in_His_Study_at_the_Tuileries_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3079" data-file-height="5135" /></a></span> </td> <td>15 August 1769, <a href="/wiki/Ajaccio" title="Ajaccio">Ajaccio</a><br />son of <a href="/wiki/Carlo_Buonaparte" title="Carlo Buonaparte">Carlo Buonaparte</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/Letizia_Bonaparte" title="Letizia Bonaparte">Letizia Ramolino</a> </td> <td> • <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9phine_de_Beauharnais" title="Joséphine de Beauharnais">Joséphine de Beauharnais</a><br />9 March 1796<br />No children<br /> • <a href="/wiki/Marie_Louise,_Duchess_of_Parma" title="Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma">Marie Louise of Parma</a><br />11 March 1810<br />1 son </td> <td>5 May 1821<br />Saint Helena<br />aged 51 </td> <td>Declared Emperor of the French on May 18, 1804 </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Napoleon_II" title="Napoleon II">Napoléon François, King of Rome</a></b><br /><b>(Napoleon II)</b><br />1815–1832 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Le_duc_de_Reichstadt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Le_duc_de_Reichstadt.jpg/100px-Le_duc_de_Reichstadt.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Le_duc_de_Reichstadt.jpg/150px-Le_duc_de_Reichstadt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Le_duc_de_Reichstadt.jpg/200px-Le_duc_de_Reichstadt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="706" data-file-height="1049" /></a></span> </td> <td>20 March 1811, Paris<br />son of Napoleon I<br />and Marie Louise of Parma </td> <td>Unmarried </td> <td>22 July 1832<br /><a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a> <p>aged 21 </p> </td> <td>Son of Napoleon I </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bonaparte" title="Joseph Bonaparte">Joseph, Count of Survilliers</a></b><br /><b>(Joseph I)</b><br />1832–1844 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Joseph-Bonaparte.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Joseph-Bonaparte.jpg/100px-Joseph-Bonaparte.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Joseph-Bonaparte.jpg/150px-Joseph-Bonaparte.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Joseph-Bonaparte.jpg/200px-Joseph-Bonaparte.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2114" data-file-height="3251" /></a></span> </td> <td>7 January 1768, <a href="/wiki/Corte,_Haute-Corse" title="Corte, Haute-Corse">Corte</a><br />son of Carlo Buonaparte<br />and Letizia Ramolino </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Julie_Clary" title="Julie Clary">Julie Clary</a><br />1 August 1794<br />2 children </td> <td>28 July 1844<br /><a href="/wiki/Florence" title="Florence">Florence</a><br />aged 76 </td> <td>Brother of Napoleon I, uncle of Napoleon II </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Louis_Bonaparte" title="Louis Bonaparte">Louis, Count of Saint-Leu</a></b><br /><b>(Louis I)</b><br />1844–1846 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:LouisBonaparte_Holland.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/LouisBonaparte_Holland.jpg/100px-LouisBonaparte_Holland.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/LouisBonaparte_Holland.jpg/150px-LouisBonaparte_Holland.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/LouisBonaparte_Holland.jpg/200px-LouisBonaparte_Holland.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4026" data-file-height="6134" /></a></span> </td> <td>2 September 1778, Ajaccio<br />son of Carlo Buonaparte<br />and Letizia Ramolino </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hortense_de_Beauharnais" title="Hortense de Beauharnais">Hortense de Beauharnais</a><br />4 January 1802<br />3 children </td> <td>25 July 1846<br /><a href="/wiki/Livorno" title="Livorno">Livorno</a><br />aged 67 </td> <td>Brother of Joseph I </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Napoleon_III" title="Napoleon III">Napoleon III</a></b><br />1846–1852; 1870–1873<br />(Emperor of the French, 1852–1870) </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Napol%C3%A9on_III_par_Jean_Hippolyte_Flandrin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Napol%C3%A9on_III_par_Jean_Hippolyte_Flandrin.jpg/100px-Napol%C3%A9on_III_par_Jean_Hippolyte_Flandrin.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Napol%C3%A9on_III_par_Jean_Hippolyte_Flandrin.jpg/150px-Napol%C3%A9on_III_par_Jean_Hippolyte_Flandrin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Napol%C3%A9on_III_par_Jean_Hippolyte_Flandrin.jpg/200px-Napol%C3%A9on_III_par_Jean_Hippolyte_Flandrin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1359" data-file-height="1973" /></a></span> </td> <td>20 April 1808, Paris<br />son of Louis, Count of Saint-Leu<br />and Hortense de Beauharnais </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A9nie_de_Montijo" title="Eugénie de Montijo">Eugénie de Montijo</a><br />29 January 1853<br />1 son </td> <td>9 January 1873<br /><a href="/wiki/Chislehurst" title="Chislehurst">Chislehurst</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a><br />aged 64 </td> <td>Son of Louis I </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Louis-Napol%C3%A9on,_Prince_Imperial" title="Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial">Napoléon, Prince Imperial</a></b><br /><b>(Napoleon IV)</b><br />1873–1879 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Prince_Imp%C3%A9rial,_1878,_Londres,_BNF_Gallica.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Prince_Imp%C3%A9rial%2C_1878%2C_Londres%2C_BNF_Gallica.jpg/100px-Prince_Imp%C3%A9rial%2C_1878%2C_Londres%2C_BNF_Gallica.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Prince_Imp%C3%A9rial%2C_1878%2C_Londres%2C_BNF_Gallica.jpg/150px-Prince_Imp%C3%A9rial%2C_1878%2C_Londres%2C_BNF_Gallica.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Prince_Imp%C3%A9rial%2C_1878%2C_Londres%2C_BNF_Gallica.jpg/200px-Prince_Imp%C3%A9rial%2C_1878%2C_Londres%2C_BNF_Gallica.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1522" data-file-height="2419" /></a></span> </td> <td>16 March 1856, Paris<br />son of Napoleon III<br />and Eugénie de Montijo </td> <td>Unmarried </td> <td>1 June 1879<br />Zulu Kingdom (present-day <a href="/wiki/KwaZulu-Natal" title="KwaZulu-Natal">KwaZulu-Natal</a>)<br />aged 23 </td> <td>Son of Napoleon III </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Victor,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Victor, Prince Napoléon">Victor, Prince Napoléon</a></b><br /><b>(Napoleon V)</b><br />1879–1926 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Victor_Napoleon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Victor_Napoleon.jpg/100px-Victor_Napoleon.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Victor_Napoleon.jpg/150px-Victor_Napoleon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Victor_Napoleon.jpg/200px-Victor_Napoleon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="408" data-file-height="558" /></a></span> </td> <td>18 July 1862, Paris<br />son of <a href="/wiki/Prince_Napol%C3%A9on-J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Bonaparte" title="Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte">Jérôme, Prince Napoléon</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/Princess_Maria_Clotilde_of_Savoy" title="Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy">Maria Clotilde of Savoy</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Princess_Cl%C3%A9mentine_of_Belgium" title="Princess Clémentine of Belgium">Clémentine of Belgium</a><br />10 November 1910<br />2 children </td> <td>3 May 1926<br /><a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a><br />aged 63 </td> <td>Grandnephew of Napoleon I, 2nd cousin of Napoleon IV </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Louis,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Louis, Prince Napoléon">Louis, Prince Napoléon</a></b><br /><b>(Napoleon VI)</b><br />1926–1997 </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Louis_Bonaparte.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Louis_Bonaparte.jpg/100px-Louis_Bonaparte.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Louis_Bonaparte.jpg/150px-Louis_Bonaparte.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Louis_Bonaparte.jpg/200px-Louis_Bonaparte.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1048" data-file-height="1280" /></a></span> </td> <td>23 January 1914, Brussels<br />son of Prince Victor Napoléon<br />and Clémentine of Belgium </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alix,_Princess_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Alix, Princess Napoléon">Alix de Foresta</a><br />16 August 1949<br />4 children </td> <td>3 May 1997<br /><a href="/wiki/Prangins" title="Prangins">Prangins</a><br />aged 83 </td> <td>Son of Napoleon V </td></tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Jean-Christophe,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon">Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon</a></b><br /><b>(Napoleon VII)</b><br />1997–present<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Prince_Napol%C3%A9on.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Prince_Napol%C3%A9on.JPG/100px-Prince_Napol%C3%A9on.JPG" decoding="async" width="100" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Prince_Napol%C3%A9on.JPG/150px-Prince_Napol%C3%A9on.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Prince_Napol%C3%A9on.JPG 2x" data-file-width="165" data-file-height="262" /></a></span> </td> <td>11 July 1986, <a href="/wiki/Saint-Rapha%C3%ABl,_Var" title="Saint-Raphaël, Var">Saint-Raphaël</a><br />son of <a href="/wiki/Charles,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Charles, Prince Napoléon">Charles, Prince Napoléon</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/Princess_B%C3%A9atrice_of_Bourbon-Two_Sicilies" title="Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies">Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Olympia,_Princess_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Olympia, Princess Napoléon">Countess Olympia von und zu Arco-Zinneberg</a><br />17 October 2019<br />1 son </td> <td> </td> <td>Grandson of Napoleon VI </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Line_of_succession">Line of succession</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Succession_to_the_former_French_throne_(Bonapartist)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Line of succession"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1116488514">.mw-parser-output .treeview ul{padding:0;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .treeview li{padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none;list-style-image:none}.mw-parser-output .treeview li li{background:url("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Treeview-grey-line.png")no-repeat 0 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/15px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/23px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/30px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a></span> <i><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bonaparte" title="Joseph Bonaparte">Joseph Bonaparte</a> (1768-1844)</i></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Simple_silver_crown.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/15px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/23px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/File:Simple_silver_crown.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/15px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/23px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/30px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a></span> <i><a href="/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on,_Prince_Imperial" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoléon, Prince Imperial">Napoléon, Prince Imperial</a> (1856-1879)</i></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Bonaparte" title="Jérôme Bonaparte">Jérôme Bonaparte</a> (1784–1860)</i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Prince_Napol%C3%A9on-J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Bonaparte" title="Prince Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte">Napoléon Jérôme, Prince of Montfort</a> (1822-1891)</i>; passed over in his cousin's will <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Simple_silver_crown.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/15px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/23px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/30px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a></span> <i><a href="/wiki/Victor,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Victor, Prince Napoléon">Victor, Prince Napoléon</a> (1862-1926)</i> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Simple_silver_crown.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Simple_silver_crown.svg/15px-Simple_silver_crown.svg.png" decoding="async" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Simple_gold_crown.svg/23px-Simple_gold_crown.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Simple_gold_crown.svg/30px-Simple_gold_crown.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></a></span> <b><a href="/wiki/Jean-Christophe,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on" title="Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon">Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon</a></b> (b. 1986) <ul><li><b>(1)</b> <a href="/wiki/Jean-Christophe,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on#Personal_life" title="Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon">Louis, Prince Napoléon</a> (b. 2022)</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><b>(2)</b> <a href="/wiki/Louis,_Prince_Napol%C3%A9on#Marriage_and_issue" title="Louis, Prince Napoléon">Jérôme, Prince Napoléon</a> (b. 1957)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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href="#cite_ref-ghda_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ghda_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ghda_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ghda_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ghda_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ghda_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ghda_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser</i> XVIII. "Haus Bonaparte". C.A. Starke Verlag, 2007, pp. 17-18. 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Paris: Petit Gotha. p. 441. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/2-9507974-0-7" title="Special:BookSources/2-9507974-0-7"><bdi>2-9507974-0-7</bdi></a>. <q>I, the undersigned Louis, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte, head of the Imperial Family, as authorized by the Senatus Consutus of 7 November 1852, the Imperial Family statute of 21 June 1853 and tradition, to designate, in certain situations, notably by application of article 4 of the statute, the dynastic heirs in the Imperial Family for succession to the Imperial dignity, do choose, from the order of hereditary succession and according to primogeniture, my grandson, Jean-Christophe...as heir of the Imperial title and position. 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