Napoleon III, ne Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, born in Paris, France, 20 April 1808, died 9 January 1873, Chislehurst, Kent, England, age 64.

1st President of the French Second Republic, term 20 December 1848 – 2 December 1852, and Emperor of the Second French Empire, reign 2 December 1852 – 4 September 1870.

Présidence de la République française official web site

Royal house

House of Bonaparte

Family

1. Spouse Eugénie de Montijo daughter of Cipriano Cyprien and María Manuela Enriqueta Kirkpatrick de Closbourn y Grevigné
   1. Louis Napoléon, Prince Imperial
2. Mistress Mathilde Bonaparte his cousin and fiancee.
3. Mistress Maria Anna Schiess of Allensbach (Lake of Constance, Germany), mother of his son Bonaventur Karrer.
   1. Bonaventur Karrer
4. Mistress Alexandrine Éléonore Vergeot laundress at the prison at Ham, mother of his sons Alexandre Louis Eugène and Louis Ernest Alexandre.
   1. Alexandre Louis Eugène
   2. Louis Ernest Alexandre
5. Mistress Elisa Rachel Felix, the "most famous actress in Europe".
6. Mistress Harriet Howard wealthy and a major financial backer.
7. Mistress Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione Spy, Artist and famous beauty, sent by Camillo Cavour to influence the Emperor's politics.
8. Mistress Marie-Anne Waleska, a possible mistress, who was the wife of Count Alexandre Joseph Count Colonna-Walewski, his relative and foreign minister.
9. Mistress Marguerite Bellange, also known as Justine Marie Le Boeuf actress and acrobatic dancer. Bellanger was falsely rumoured to be the illegitimate daughter of a hangman, and was the most universally loathed of the mistresses, though perhaps his favorite.
10. Mistress Countess Louise de Mercy-Argenteau, likely a platonic relationship, author of The Last Love of an Emperor, her reminiscences of her association with the emperor.

Napoleon III was the son of Louis I King of Holland and Hortense de Beauharnais

Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (full name Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte) (20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the only emperor of the Second French Empire. He holds the unusual distinction of being both the first titular president and the last monarch of France.

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