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XIL MATHILDE LETITIA WILHELMINE (1820-1904) , daughter of See also:

Jerome, and See also:sister of See also:Prince See also:Napoleon (XI.), was See also:born at See also:Trieste on the 20th of May 1820; after being almost Mathilde. betrothed to her See also:cousin See also:Louis Napoleon, in 184o she was married to Prince Anatole See also:Demidov. His conduct, however, led to a separation within five years, and the See also:tsar See also:Nicholas compelled him to make Princess Mathilde a handsome See also:allowance. After the See also:election of Louis Napoleon to the See also:presidency of the See also:republic she took up her See also:residence in See also:Paris, and did the honours of the Elysee till his See also:marriage. She continued to live in Paris, having See also:great See also:influence as a friend and See also:patron of men of See also:art and letters, till her See also:death on the 2nd of See also:January 1904. III' vaunted his travery. After the first defeats he had to flee from See also:France with the empress, and settled in See also:England at See also:Chislehurst, completing his military See also:education at See also:Woolwich. On the death of his See also:father on the 9th of January 1873 the Imperialists proclaimed him Napoleon IV., and he became the See also:official Pretender. He was naturally inactive, but he was influenced by his See also:mother on the one See also:hand, and by the Bonapartist leaders in France on the other. They thought that he should win his See also:crown by military See also:prestige, and he was persuaded to attach himself as a volunteer to the See also:English expedition to Zulu-See also:land in See also:February 1879. It was a blunder to have allowed him to go, and the blunder ended in a tragedy, for while out on a See also:reconnaissance with a few troopers they were surprised by Zulus,and the Prince Imperial was killed (See also:June 1, 1879). His See also:body was brought back to England, and buried at Chislehurst. See also:Charles See also:Joseph See also:Bonaparte (b.

1851), younger son of the first Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, and a See also:

grandson of Jerome, See also:king of See also:Westphalia, attained a distinguished See also:place in See also:American politics. Born at See also:Baltimore on the 9th of June 1851 and educated at Harvard University, he became a lawyer in 1874 and has been See also:president of the See also:National Municipal See also:League and has filled other public positions. He was secretary of the See also:navy in President See also:Roosevelt's See also:cabinet from See also:July 1905 to See also:December 1906, and then See also:attorney-See also:general of the See also:United States until See also:March 1909.

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