Louis Bonaparte
King of Holland, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, member of the House of Buonaparte (1778-1846) · France · Politicians · Died at 67
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Something wrong?Napoleon's younger brother who got handed a kingdom and actually tried to run it for the people who lived there - a choice that cost him the throne when the emperor decided loyalty mattered more than local popularity.
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Louis Bonaparte, Constable of the Empire by François Gérard, 1806
Louis defends Dutch independence against Napoleon. Painted by ten Kate
Portrait of Louis Bonaparte in Rome after his abdication, wearing the uniform of a Dutch cavalry general (Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein, c. 1813)
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Born Luigi Buonaparte in Corsica in 1778, Louis followed his older brothers into the French Army and rode Napoleon's rise. In 1802 he married Hortense de Beauharnais, stepdaughter of Empress Joséphine, binding him closer to the imperial center. Four years later Napoleon dissolved the Batavian Commonwealth and installed Louis as King of Holland, expecting a compliant client state. Louis had other ideas: he worked to govern independently and won genuine support from his Dutch subjects. Napoleon grew tired of the defiance, annexed Holland outright into the French Empire in 1810, and sent Louis into exile. His youngest son later became Napoleon III and founded the Second French Empire in 1852.
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