Napoleon II

Born 20 March 1811 to Napoleon I and Marie Louise of Austria, he was Prince Imperial and King of Rome from birth. When his father tried to abdicate in April 1814, he named the boy his successor, but the coalition powers refused to recognize him. After Napoleon I fell a second time in 1815, the child was briefly declared Emperor of the French — for two days. He never ruled. Taken to Vienna, he spent the rest of his life in his grandfather's Austrian court, known as Franz, Duke of Reichstadt, a title granted in 1818. He died of tuberculosis on 22 July 1832. The nickname L'Aiglon — "the Eaglet" —…