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  1. Louis Bonaparte in Rome after abdicating as King of Holland, wearing the uniform of Dutch cavalry general, painted by Vogel von Vogelstein in 1813 or 1815. After his abdication, Louis Bonaparte assumed the title of Count of Saint-Leu (comte de Saint-Leu), which was a reference to his property at Saint-Leu-la-Forêt near Paris.

  2. Apr 18, 2024 · Louis Bonaparte (born September 2, 1778, Ajaccio, Corsica—died July 25, 1846, Livorno, Italy) 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.

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  3. Louis Bonaparte assumes office The arrival of king Louis Bonaparte in Amsterdam on 20 April 1808. In May 1806 the Treaty of Paris was written and it stipulated that it became time to strengthen the weak Dutch nation. For this, the country gained a hereditary prince who had the primarly task of promoting national reconciliation and flourishing ...

  4. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. 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.

  5. Apr 18, 2024 · Louis Bonaparte (born March 16, 1856, Paris—died June 1, 1879, near Ulundi, Zululand) was a French prince imperial, the only son of Napoleon III by Empress Eugénie. He was a delicate boy, but when the Franco-German War of 1870 broke out his mother sent him to the army. After the first defeats he had to flee from France with the Empress and ...

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  7. Jun 27, 2018 · The French statesman Louis Bonaparte (1778-1846), younger brother of Napoleon I, was king of Holland from 1806 to 1810. Louis Bonaparte was born at Ajaccio, Corsica, on Sept. 2, 1778, the seventh child of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino. He received a military education in France, and in 1796 he joined his brother Napoleon in Italy, where ...

  8. Holland as part of the First French Empire. The "Corsican" wanted to control every seaport in the area and on 16 March 1810 Bouches-de-l'Escaut and Bouches-du-Rhin became part of the First French Empire. King Louis Bonaparte opposed his older

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