Pierre Bonaparte
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Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte
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| Born |
11 October 1815 Rome, Italy |
| Died | 7 April 1881 (aged 65) Versailles, France |
| Burial | Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, France |
| Spouse | Justine Eleanore Ruflin |
| Issue |
Roland Napoleon Bonaparte Jeanne, Marquise de Villeneuve-Escaplon |
| House | Bonaparte |
| Father | Lucien Bonaparte |
| Mother | Alexandrine de Bleschamp |
Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte (11 October 1815 – 7 April 1881) was born in Rome, Italy, the son of Prince Lucien Bonaparte and his second wife Alexandrine de Bleschamp.
He was a nephew of Napoleon I of France, Joseph Bonaparte, Elisa Bonaparte, Louis Bonaparte, Pauline Bonaparte, Caroline Bonaparte and Jérôme Bonaparte.
He began his life of adventure at the age of fifteen, joining the insurrectionary bands in the Romagna (1830 . errs. 1831); was then in the United States, where he went to join his uncle Joseph, and in Colombia with Francisco de Paula Santander (1832). Returning to Rome he was taken prisoner by order of Pope Gregory XVI (1835–1836). He finally took refuge in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
At the revolution of 1848 he returned to France and was elected deputy for Corsica to the Constituent Assembly. He declared himself an out-and-out republican and voted even with the socialists. He pronounced himself in favour of the national workshops and against the loi Falloux. His attitude contributed greatly to give popular confidence to his cousin Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III of France), of whose coup d'état on 2 December 1851 he disapproved; but he was soon reconciled to the emperor, and accepted the title of prince. The republicans at once abandoned him.
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