Charles Napoléon

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Charles Napoléon , full name: Charles Marie Jérôme Victor, prince Napoléon, duc de Montfort (born October 19, 1950 in Boulogne-Billancourt ), also known as Napoléon VII , has been the head of the Bonaparte family and a French politician since 1997 .

Life

Charles Napoléon is the son of Louis Napoléon (1914–1997) and his wife Alix de Foresta (* 1926), daughter of Comte Albéric de Foresta. Through his father he is a great-great-grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte , King of Westphalia . Napoleon III had given the succession members of the imperial family (his son and the descendants of his uncle Jérôme, but not the family of his uncle Lucien ) the title of Prince or Princess Napoléon (omitting the old surname Bonaparte), which the descendants still use today.

Together with his twin sister Cathérine and his siblings Laure and Jérôme, he spent his youth in a villa in Prangins on Lake Geneva in Switzerland . The Bonaparte house, like the Orléans house , was banned from France by law from 1886 to 1950, the year of his birth. He was therefore the first Bonaparte child born again in the country immediately after his exile was abolished.

He attended boarding school at Sainte-Croix-des-neiges in Abondance , received his doctorate in economics from the Sorbonne and now works as a banker, finance and real estate agent in Paris .

In 2000 Charles Napoléon Bonaparte was elected mayor of Ajaccio , the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte . He had drawn up an independent list allied with various parties on the left. He then became a member of the city council of Ajaccio and from 2004 Vice Mayor of the city. In 2005 he announced his candidacy for Mayor of Fontainebleau in 2008 . After the failure of this candidacy, Charles Napoléon was elected to the municipal council of Nemours ( Seine-et-Marne ) in 2008 for the Mouvement démocrate .

Marriage and offspring

On December 19, 1978 Charles Napoléon Bonaparte married in Paris Béatrice Princess of Bourbon-Sicily (* 1950), daughter of Ferdinand, the Duke of Castro (1926-2008). They have two children together, Caroline Napoléon (born October 24, 1980) and Jean-Christophe Napoléon (born July 11, 1986). The marriage ended in divorce in 1989. On April 18, 1992, his third daughter, Sophie Catherine Napoléon, was born. He married their mother Jeanne-Françoise Valliccioni at the end of September 1996. In 1998 the couple adopted a girl from Vietnam named Anh Laetitia Napoléon.

literature

  • Charles Napoléon: Bonaparte et Paoli. Aux origines de la question corse . Perrin, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-262-01737-9 .
  • Charles Napoléon: Les Bonaparte. Esprit's rebels . Perrin, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-262-02211-9 .
  • Napoléon Bonaparte: Lettres d'amour à Désirée, Josephine, Marie et Marie-Louise , Archipelago, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84187-682-9 .
  • Napoléon Bonaparte: Correspondance générale. Tome 4: Ruptures et fondation 1803-1804 . Fayard, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-213-63349-7 .
predecessor Office successor
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Head of the Bonaparte family, Bonapartist
pretender to the throne of France
since May 3, 1997
intended:
Jean-Christophe Napoléon