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Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846) was a younger brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a monarch in his own right from 1806 to 1810, ruling over the Kingdom of Holland (a French client state roughly corresponding to the modern-day Netherlands ).
Louis Bonaparte served as the king of Holland from 1806 till 1810 yet he is better known for being the brother of Napoleon I than for his own achievements as a king! And this was not the only curse of being the brother of someone very famous and popular.
Apr 18, 2024 · Louis Bonaparte was a French soldier and Napoleon I’s third surviving brother. As king of Holland (1806–10), he guarded the welfare of his subjects. His unwillingness to join the Continental System brought him into conflict with the emperor. After attending military school at Châlons, France, Louis.
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Jun 27, 2018 · views 1,270,444 updated May 14 2018. Bonaparte, Louis (1778–1846) King of Holland (1806–10), brother of Napoleon I and father of Napoleon III. He accompanied his brother in the Italian and Egyptian campaigns, became a general (1804) and governor of Paris (1805).
In 1806 Napoleon abolished the new republic and made his brother King of Holland. However, in 1810 Napoleon invaded the Netherlands and annexed them to France. In 1813, Allied forces drove out the French. The Dutch called back William Frederick, the son of the last stadtholder, to head the new government. He was proclaimed "sovereign prince".
Brother of Emperor Napoléon I (q.v.); married Hortense de Beauharnais, daughter of Empress Joséphine, in 1802, one of their three sons was Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (Napoléon III); in 1806 appointed King of Holland by his brother and ruled as Lodewijk.
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte’s (1778-1846), exclamation ‘Iek ben Konijn van Olland’ (I am Rabbit of Holland) in poor Dutch is legendary. He meant to say ‘King of Holland’, which he was from 1806 to 1810. Despite being a humorous slip of the tongue, it attests to his effort to master his subjects’ language.
